We launched our appeal a freezing afternoon at Canterbury Cathedral. Jamie from the Air Ambulance Trust came over from Marden and made us all pose. Thank goodness it will be warmer in July.

This morning we welcomed Lord Bates, former MP, to Canterbury Cathedral. He set off from Olympia on Good Friday last year and has walked the whole route on his own. His great idea is that the Olympics in classical times were a time of truce when there was to be no war. At the time of every Olympic Games since Baron Coubertin restarted the event at the end of the nineteenth century world leaders have agreed a truce. It has never happened. So this year he decided to walk the route across Europe through all its war torn past to plead that this year there really will be a truce. You can read about his amazing journey at http://www.walkfortruce.org/ .