I just want to give a big shout out to Ed, Freddie and Sean – otherwise known as ‘Team Bear Bones’. They are all PhD students at Teddy Hall (St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford), and are currently driving from Oxford, England to Ulan-Ude, Russia as participants of this years Mongol Rally – all to […]

  One of the things on Matt’s bucket list was to drink a pint of Guinness in Ireland, so when Peter and I went to Dublin earlier in the year we decided that we would do that on his behalf …   Dublin – August 2017  Day 1 – August 25th  After a short flight, […]

  Matt was an in-patient at the Young Person’s Unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham for over four months. During that time we got to know many of the staff very well, in fact many made us feel more like family whilst we were there. They were always prepared to spend time with us; […]

We were delighted when Holly asked if she could take Matt’s ashes with her when she went to visit South Africa for six weeks. Holly was one of Matt’s oldest and closest friends, and they thought the world of each other. Matt would have loved nothing more than to have accompanied Holly on her travels, […]

Matt was very interested to hear about the adventure his Aunt Joy was planning in Borneo. He was a great advocate of people who were prepared to try something new, especially when it meant pushing themselves out of their comfort zone. Operation Raleigh is a very good example of the sort of thing that Matt […]