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A year ago today, March 18th I was diagnosed with Advanced Prostate Cancer. I no longer have a Prostate and 99.9% of the Cancer has gone. This old battle scarred Tortoiseshell reminded me of the last 12 months.
Movember 2015
Movember is an annual event involving the growing of mustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of men's health issues, such as depression in men, prostate cancer and other male cancers, and associated charities. The Movember Foundation runs the Movember charity event, housed at www.Movember.com. The goal of Movember is to "change the face of men's health."
In U.S. can donate to:
donate.cancer.org
zerocancer.org/give
Sayers & Scovill (S&S) coach builders
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Cruisin' For A Cure Canada classic/vintage car show, CAA Centre
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 + Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-200mm F3.5-6.3
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Twenty-one years ago, a collective of 24 photographers agreed to document New Year’s Day for the next 24 years. Each was allocated one hour to record what is going on around them and each moves forward one hour every year.
I was invited to join this collective in December 2023. My image, of this bus stop in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, was photographed at my allocated hour, 10pm (22:00), on New Year's Day.
I chose this location for several reasons. These prostate cancer posters were a regular sight in our area at the time and they coincided with a friend's recent diagnosis of the disease. This style and colour of bus shelter is typical in our area. I now possess a concessionary bus pass so I use buses quite a lot now. Also, I liked the festive lights and decorations in the windows of the mid-century building in the background.
Luckily, my friend's prostate cancer was diagnosed early. He has since been treated. Another friend has since been diagnosed with the same disease but requires more invasive treatment.
This year's exhibition opened on 24th February 2024 and is currently displayed in Soho Square, London, until 19 March 2024.
My photo was also one of those featured in the Guardian newpaper's on-line site a few days ago:
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/feb/23/new-...
This is a limited addition watch only 1000 made.
Supporting Prostate Cancer UK.
I was diagnosed on 8th October with Advanced Prostate Cancer and started my journey of treatment.
So for that reason I treated myself to this watch as soon as I saw it.
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Cruisin' For A Cure Canada classic/vintage car show, CAA Centre
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 + Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-200mm F3.5-6.3
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50049 "Defiance" is seen leading 50044 "Exeter" and 50007 "Hercules" as they approach Old Alder Lane Bridge, Winwick working the GBRf 2021 "This Time It's Personal" 1Z34 12:25 Preston to Bescot Up And Down Goods on the 5th September 2021.
Stock :- 35469, 3110, 3141, 80042, 3119, 3123, 3146, 3147, 1671, 4946, 4991, 4998.
© Andy Parkinson 2021 - No Unauthorised Use Please.
This month, I've signed to up to take part in the #ridethemonth challenege for Prostate Cancer UK.
I have to ride 150 miles throughout May and as a total noob cyclist, this is quite a lot! So far I've done about 45 miles though so i'm making good progress. If you want to Sponsor me, here is the link...
cyclethemonth.prostatecanceruk.org/fundraising/ashleys-10...
I've been taking my drone out whilst riding and the freedom thay being on a bike is amazing. You can stop anywhere very quickly and get the photographs that you often pine for whilst travelling by car.
Movember 2015
Movember is an annual event involving the growing of mustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of men's health issues, such as depression in men, prostate cancer and other male cancers, and associated charities. The Movember Foundation runs the Movember charity event, housed at www.Movember.com. The goal of Movember is to "change the face of men's health."
Pacemaker Deluxe Brougham convertible
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Cruisin' For A Cure Canada classic/vintage car show, CAA Centre
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 + Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-200mm F3.5-6.3
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Hi friends, I got home yesterday lunchtime from my last radiotherapy session in Wałbrzych 75 kilometres away just as this sudden snow came down. Glad I don't have to travel there every day anymore, particularly today as the roads are very slushy and slippery and it's still snowing!
This shot was taken early this morning from our front porch after 6 inches of snow seems to confirm that spring has NOT sprung yet as many believed it had -To jest Polska!!
My results are excellent and the therapy has so far been effective. Now it is regular checks for the next 2-3 years to keep safe.
To all the guys on here:
Prostate cancer is a silent killer and you never know you have it until it is often late. Read up on it and watch for small telltale signs and get regular PSA tests from the recommended age. I've been lucky and caught it at first stage as I kept my eye on things. The biopsies, tests and treatment are nothing to be afraid of. Just ask me if you want to know anything.
The most important thing is to stay POSITIVE.
I hope this warning may save someone. Take care.
Patrick
Pillared two-door
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Cruisin' For A Cure Canada classic/vintage car show, CAA Centre
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 + Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-200mm F3.5-6.3
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Prostate Cancer UK liveried 66769 'Paul Taylor Our Inspiration' passes Thurston in charge of the 4E20 13.21 Felixstowe South Gbrf - Masborough N&W Gbrf on the 28 March 2022.
Sayers & Scovill (S&S) body on LaSalle chassis
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Cruisin' For A Cure Canada classic/vintage car show, CAA Centre
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 + Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-200mm F3.5-6.3
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Well, what are the chances? With DB’s #WeStandWithUkraine adorned Shed running to Trafford Park this week, GBRf has kindly diagrammed their Ukraine supporting GM. In their case it is 66708 ‘Слава Чкраïні Glory to Ukraine’ on 4H33 1451 Banbury Reservoir Tarmac to Hindlow Gbrf, meaning that both Ukraine supporting machines passed here in the space of an hour this evening. Captured 2nd August 2022.
If you look closely in the background, you can see The Lovell Telescope (commonly known as Jodrell Bank) and comparing to yesterday’s snap of 66099, you will notice that it has turned around.
Movember [...] is a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for men's health. (www.movember.com)
Movember on Wikipedia.
Gbrf special livery part 1.
A through the fence mobile phone pic of Gbrf`s Prostate Cancer liveried 66769 as it passes by the entrance gate at Roberts road before working 4E14 the short distance to the Iport terminal 22/04/2022.
This strikingly effective street mural in Fulham Road, west London, is a temporary installation – which, given its quality, seems a shame. It celebrates Prostate Cancer UK’s Man of Men, representing the hundreds of thousands of fathers, brothers, sons, nephews and friends across the UK who are impacted by this killer disease.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men: every year, globally, some 375,000 men die from this pernicious disease, including more than 12,000 here in the UK.
Prostate cancer is most certainly treatable if it’s caught in time – so it’s crucial than men should check their risk. It takes just 30 seconds. Go here: www.prostatecanceruk.org/muralqr Oh, and let’s hear it for Global Street Art, which funded this magnificent mural.
There are plenty of GBRf diagrams from Peak Forest down to the Midlands to carry the huge amounts of aggregate needed for HS2. Sequentially numbered GBRf Class 66’s are currently in some of these diagrams, in this case 66769 ‘League Managers Association / Paul Taylor Our Inspiration’ at the head of empty box hoppers as 4H33 1451 Banbury Reservoir Tarmac to Hindlow Gbrf. Friday 29th October 2022.
66769 was delivered to the UK in December 2022 and was repainted in August 2021 from the ‘Europorte’ style with roundels to the present, plainer GBRf house style, though the shade of blue is darker than the house one.
The Mo, slang for moustache, and November come together each year for Movember.
Movember challenges men to change their appearance and the face of men’s health by growing a moustache. The rules are simple, start Movember 1st clean shaven and then grow a moustache for the entire month. The moustache becomes the ribbon for men’s health, the means by which awareness and funds are raised for cancers that affect men. Much like the commitment to run or walk for charity, the men of Movember commit to growing a moustache for 30 days.
The idea for Movember was sparked in 2003 over a few beers in Melbourne, Australia. The plan was simple – to bring the moustache back as a bit of a joke and do something for men’s health. No money was raised in 2003, but the guys behind the Mo realized the potential a moustache had in generating conversations about men’s health. Inspired by the women around them and all they had done for breast cancer, the Mo Bros set themselves on a course to create a global men’s health movement.
The funds raised through Movember’s UK campaign benefit the The Prostate Cancer Charity (TPCC), the UK’s leading prostate cancer charity.
The money raised as a result of Movember is channelled by our men’s health partner into a number of world class and innovative education, support, research and awareness initiatives.
The success of Movember can be directly attributed to the more than 627,000 Mo Bros and Mo Sistas who have supported our cause since 2003. Movember is sincerely grateful for their efforts and appreciate all they do.
For those of you new to Movember, we challenge you to join us in changing the face of men's health.
Visit: uk.movember.com/
My fake Mo is not just a concept, it's an attitude.
Please donate to #Movember: uk.movember.com/donate
Brougham convertible
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Cruisin' For A Cure Canada classic/vintage car show, CAA Centre
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 + Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-200mm F3.5-6.3
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Windsor Highlander four-door sedan
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Cruisin' For A Cure Canada classic/vintage car show, CAA Centre
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 + Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-200mm F3.5-6.3
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Cruisin' For A Cure Canada classic/vintage car show, CAA Centre
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 + Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-200mm F3.5-6.3
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Tomorrow is my 76th birthday! It’s hard to believe so many years have passed. Diagnosed with prostate cancer when 50, I sure am happy to have lasted so long.
Celebrated this morning with a 5 km run through Cheesman Park and will have dinner tonight with my daughter Sarah and her husband Nico and my grandson Milo.
I am enjoying watching the Denver Broncos in a pub just a block from my new apartment — Bar Nun. barnundenver.com/home
Dedicated to the wonderful and professional staff at 'Affidea' oncology unit in Wałbrzych, Lower Silesia SW Poland.
Their care and attention made my treatment a pleasant experience rather than a trial. God bless you all.
See my previous image with footnote about Prostate Cancer awareness.
Distinguished Gentlemens Ride, New Plymouth.
On September 25, thousands of distinguished gentlefolk in
hundreds of cities worldwide raise funds and awareness for
men's health, prostate cancer research and suicide prevention.
Fitzroy, New Plymouth, Taranaki, NZ.
Wrote this poem shortly after being diagnosed with prostate cancer back 26 years ago. I am pleased to be here still, running, writing and savoring each day as a treasure.
You will find more than 184 of my poems HERE. fno.org/poetry/index.html
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He caught me
off guard
Waiting
in line
For nothing
in particular
Just hanging
out
With time
on my hands
“Your number?” he smiled
darkly
One sleeve extended
but empty
Shifting his weight
from shoulder
to shoulder
As I shook my head
backing up and away
“Number?,” I mumbled
At a loss
suddenly
for words
The orange plastic piece
burning hot in my hand
The cipher indistinct
but glowing
“Yours,” he nodded
approaching with certainty
His knowing
dark smile
mocking
“No way,”
I stammered
Stumbling and shrugging
Back
Back
Eluding his touch
his foul breath
those glowing eyes
Ducking
just in time
I hear
and miss
The sudden swish
of a blade
neck high
“I'm not done here.
Not going with you
at this time.
Not ready.
Not willing.
And just not that easy,
my hooded friend.”
He grumbles
mumbles
and shakes his head
Unaccustomed to such folly
He turns away
settles for the next
in line
© Jamie McKenzie, all rights reserved
You will find more of my poems and songs here
and in The Storm in Its Passing and Flights of Fancy.
My songs are at
One in two men will be affected by a prostate disease during their lifetime.
Pants In The Park 5km runs raise awareness of Prostate UK. Facebook
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This is a picture of Rosey just before we left Leeton for Griffith and also for the start of my prostate cancer treatment in Wagga Wagga, a city 126 klms away from Leeton. There are two linear generators, each worth about $3,000,000. The staff are amazing!! We did not know we would be leaving Leeton when I took this picture, I had not begun counselling yet so did not know about the caretaking position in Griffith, more on that later!!
Rosey in her usual smiley pose, I do love her smile, really lights up her face and mine too and I know from your very generous and loving comments you love to see her smiling happiness too!!! I believe this is English lavendar. I love how the petals come out each side of the "flower".
Rosey and I have now left Leeton and have taken up a caretaking position in Griffith with Barnabas House, a crisis counselling centre run by the Baptist Church - this is a permanent position for as long as we want to be here. There are 50 units, 2 conjoined, which makes around 35 buildings, plus the office block. There are 3 counsellors here, and one is the Baptist Minister here in Griffith in New South Wales, which is around 60 klms from where we used to live in Leeton. We loved our caretaking position in Leeton but it was time to move on. Rev Kev was my counsellor and he offered us the position which we accpeted.
My treatment is going well, thanks to all the prayers and support I have received from my dear Flickr friends. It is a very precise procedure these days, I lay on this bed, the staff move me to align with the cross beams, then they leave the room and final adjustments are done from outside the room. A CAT scan is done firstly to see that my bladder is full so as to minimise injury from the rays that are zapping the cancer cells. If my bladder is not very full, then I am asked to leave the room, drink more water and then return - this has not happened as my bladder has been to capacity.
We are staying in a beautiful lodge purpose-built for cancer patients and it is like a motel, a great home away from home, and all the people here are "walking the walk and talking the talk"!! All are in different stages of cancer and in various parts of their bodies. We are taken from the lodge in a mini-van driven by volunteer drivers and dropped at the front door of the clinic and returned again to our lodge. Rosey and I feel like we are on a new adventure and a holiday, such is the non-invasive form of treatment and we are already making new friends.
Thanks our dear Flickr friends for your love and support and being there when we need you all the most. Thanks also for your visits and comments and faves, we appreciate very much. We use the library in Wagga Wagga, we can have up to two hours per day for free, how special is that!!!
Crew cab dually
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Cruisin' For A Cure Canada classic/vintage car show, CAA Centre
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 + Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-200mm F3.5-6.3
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Cruisin' For A Cure Canada classic/vintage car show, CAA Centre
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Olympus OM-D E-M5 + Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-200mm F3.5-6.3
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Since I already have a moustache and beard, it is difficult for me to participate in Movember. Instead, I encourage all the models of Studio d'Xavier to grow moustaches.
Strobist: AB1600 with 60X30 softbox camera left. Triggered by Cybersync.
Well worth the trip to Toronto, this conference updated a wide range of topics relevant to men's health. Major advances are taking place in the medical world, and in particular, issues affecting men including the successful treatment of advanced prostate cancer. Affecting 1 in 7 men during their lifetime, prostate CA is now ranked first in Canada for overall death due to cancer, closely followed by lung and colorectal CA. The average life expectancy for advanced disease has gone from 2 to 7 years. Bravo to the worldclass University of Toronto department of Urology putting together an impressive series of lectures and also being at the forefront of many recent advances.
mustaches for Movember (Prostate Cancer Foundation, LiveStrong); US Coast Guard Station Merrimack River
The blue fire engine that's in service with the Humberside Fire and Rescue Service, seen here at the 2015 Rescue Day event. A day that showcases the emergency services, from the main three right through to the Mountain Rescue, the Urban Search & Rescue, the Cave Rescue etc etc. This fire engine has been painted to highlight Prostate Cancer in men. Women's cancer charities always seem to have pink as their colour of choice so they picked blue for the men's charity.