May steps out for charity
May Hamilton enjoys a bracing seaside walk which is just as well as the plucky pensioner plans to complete 40 lengths of the world’s longest pier in aid of charity.
The equivalent distance of 49 miles is the same as that between St Mark’s and Northwick Park and Southend hospitals: the three trusts she is raising money for.
The 82 year-old is no stranger to a challenge (or a pier) having earlier walked all of the UK’s 54 piers with her late husband in aid of the British Lung Foundation.
May said: “I like to keep active and this is my way of saying thank you to the hospitals who’ve done so much for me over the years.”
The challenge is no small undertaking as May was involved a serious road traffic accident two years and still wears a spinal brace.
“I’ve got a few things wrong with me but I don’t let that stop me,” added the mother of one who abseiled down the side of Southend Hospital when she was 75 and goes to
tango and tai chi classes to keep mobile.
May begins her week long walk on her birthday on June 1. She hopes to raise £3,000.
We wish May sunny days and the wind behind her back.