This Shitty Disease

Helped film at the funeral today of a young Dad in our church - so that his 2yr old daughter will one day be able to watch it. They tried, for years, to have a baby, and then this...stupid, stupid cancer! Reminds me of Chris in my favourite quote of "Calendar Girls", when she's trying to get council approval for her calendar:

And if it means that we get closer to killing off this shitty, cheating, sly, conniving bloody disease that cancer is, oh God, I tell you, I'd run round Skipton market naked, smeared in plum jam, wearing nothing but a knitted tea cosy on me head and singing "Jerusalem".

I think I would too, though it wouldn't be as pretty a sight as Helen Mirren doing it.