Login
Login

Neil Fulwood

Winter Reading Challenge

Help me reach my goal of £250

I'm doing Winter Reading Challenge for Dementia UK

This winter, I'm reading and raising funds to help ensure no family faces dementia alone. I'm taking on the challenge for Dementia UK, the specialist dementia nursing charity, and would be grateful for your support.

Your donation, big or small, makes a difference. £33 could fund a new dementia specialist Admiral Nurse to spend an hour helping a family in the community, offering practical solutions and emotional support to cope with their loved one’s distressed behaviour.

Thank you!

Please Help Me
Reach My Goal

Raised

£53 + £10.75 GiftAid

My Goal

£250

Select amount to donate

£19
£33
£50
£69
£
Donate

All payments are secure & encrypted

My Achievements

Shared Page

Updated Profile Pic

Added a Blog Post

You've Self Donated!

Received 5 Donations

Reached Fundraising Goal

Increased Target Over £250

My Updates

Book 2

Thursday 12th Nov
Yesterday, I read Lips Too Chilled, a selection of the haiku of Bashõ in the Penguin Little Black Classics series. At 56 pages, with two haiku per page floating around in a sea of negative space, it was a pretty quick read.

I also notched up 30 pages of Black House, 11 pages of Liz Lochhead’s New & Collected, and made a decent start on Serenity Falls by C.J. Tudor

Book 1

Wednesday 11th Nov
Yesterday, I finished reading Ben Machell’s non-fiction book Chasing the Dark - book 1 of the Winter Reading Challenge.

I also ploughed through 53 pages of King and Straub’s Black House, which was incredibly slow to start but is now gathering momentum, and 12 pages of Liz Lochhead’s New & Collected Poems.

Chasing the Dark

Tuesday 10th Nov
I made only a token effort on Stephen King and Peter Straub’s Black House yesterday  (six pages); ditto Liz Lochhead’s New & Collected Poems (four pages). But I did take a good 81 page chunk out of Ben Machell’s Chasing the Dark. It’s a fascinating non-fiction book that examines the work of the Society for Psychical Research via the case files of arguably their most indefatigable researcher, the late Tony Cornell. He’s an intriguing figure, a pragmatist who debunks hauntings and mediums when he knows trickery is afoot, but who accepts from personal experience that there are some things which defy explanation. Machell assesses his life and career sympathetically and approaches the subject of the paranormal in a commendably open-minded fashion. I’m on track to finish the book today.

Day of rest

Monday 9th Nov
Yesterday being Sunday, I managed another three hours of reading time:

30 pages of Black House
22 pages of A Handsel
63 pages of Chasing the Dark

Decent start

Sunday 8th Nov
Yesterday was my first day of the Winter Reading Chsllemge and it was a smart move to get started on a weekend. I clocked up a nice, leisurely three hours of reading, which breaks down as:

50 pages of Chasing the Dark
45 pages Black House
20 pages A Handsel

Kicking off the Winter Reading Challenge

Saturday 7th Nov
I currently have three books on the go: Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub; Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the Supernatural by Ben Machell; and A Handsel: New and Collected Poems by Liz Lochhead. Starting tomorrow, I’ll use these blog posts to log how many pages I read per day and run a cumulative book count.

Thank you to my Sponsors

£20

Elaine And Barry

Well done Neil Elaine & Barry x

£10

Jodie Claydon

An incredible talent helping a very worthy cause. Good on you Mr F! Good luck and get reading 🥰

£10

Stella Allen-clay

You got this Neil 📚

£10

Kathleen Bell

£3

Sarah Langford

Great cause Neil.