Bake to help stroke charity

FOUR years ago while was in Rio winning gold with the women’s hockey team, my lovely 95-year-old Nanna, Dolly, had a stroke. I saw first-hand how important support is in helping stroke survivors to rebuild their lives.

I know many people had a stroke during lockdown and many survivors returned home from hospital without any support or contact. The Stroke Association has been providing telephone counselling and emotional support for most of them but they need our help to reach even more people.

So I’ll be heading into the kitchen to bake some tasty treats for the charity’s Give a Hand and Bake week starting on October 26. We may not be able to get together with family and friends, but you could arrange a Zoom party where everyone can share their goodies or give some baking as a gift, in return for a donation.

To get involved, visit www.stroke.org.uk/ baking. They have some lovely healthy recipes using LoSalt, the charity’s partner in its #HealthierUK drive to raise awareness of how lifestyles can affect the risk of stroke.

Samantha Quek

DON’T BE SO SELFISH

HANK you so much to all the selfish idiots who have to have a good time getting together spreading Covid around.

Do you ever think about people who’ll die because you only wanted to have a lovely time?

I would love to have a good time. Just walking with my daughter or seeing my son and his family – I have only seen my grandsons a few times, always sitting outside.

I would love to be able to help my sister with her husband, who has dementia, I would love to go on holiday.

I’d love to do a lot of things and for it be normal but I think of others and do what I can to help.

So please do what is right and help to get rid of this virus instead of making it worse.

June Baxter