Walking with dinosaurs for Motor Neurones Disease in Lee-on-the-Solent
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00:46 Hi, my name's Graham Lloyd.
00:49 I'm with Tony Russell.
00:50 [INAUDIBLE]
00:55 We're in Leon, the Solon.
00:57 And we're about to walk down the road, out the stope,
01:02 back up through along the military road,
01:05 and then back down, down to the DDS.
01:08 So we're walking eight miles every day,
01:12 right the way through from the 1st of January to the 31st.
01:17 Oh, sorry.
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01:22 So the local response has been outstanding.
01:28 I mean, we've raised nearly 4,000 pounds already.
01:30 We're only halfway through the month.
01:32 So we have no idea really where the toad will end up.
01:35 But we've had loads of support locally.
01:38 We've had plenty of people turn up in their own dinosaurs
01:41 to come out and walk with us as well, which has been--
01:43 it's just made it a bit different.
01:46 But we came up with the idea because I
01:49 think there's about 29,000 people walking
01:52 from Otionurine disease pre-January across the country.
01:55 But we just wanted to do something
01:57 a little bit different that would bring
01:59 a smile to people's faces and just try and highlight
02:02 a bit more about what the disease is all about
02:04 and how basically it's a really cruel, horrible disease.
02:09 But there's lots of people trying
02:11 to do good to raise money to try and find
02:13 a cure or a breakthrough for treatment.
02:16 So that's what we're trying to achieve.
02:19 I mean, if we got to 5,000 pounds, that would be--
02:22 I think we'd struggle to raise 500 pounds at the start
02:25 of the month.
02:27 But yeah, we're just very grateful for every penny
02:31 that comes in, really.
02:32 People have been so generous.
02:34 They've been driving around in their cars
02:36 to find us to give us money, which is just staggering.
02:39 So yeah, no, we're very grateful.
02:42 And we're also very grateful to the two big Facebook groups
02:46 that allow us to post each day, which gets coverage for us
02:49 and allows people to find out a little bit more
02:51 about what we're doing.
02:52 So yeah, you know, like the Leon the Solent Matters
02:57 and Fairing Matters and Gospel Aware has been amazing.
03:01 So thank you to them.
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