Chris and Simone
March 08 – Chris Elsmore and his lovely girlfriend, Simone are having their 40th birthday’s this year and have very kindly suggested that friends donate to the Christian Blandford fund in lieu of giving presents.
March 08 – Chris Elsmore and his lovely girlfriend, Simone are having their 40th birthday’s this year and have very kindly suggested that friends donate to the Christian Blandford fund in lieu of giving presents.
We’d love you to join us for something a little special this spring… On Sunday 10th May 2026, Christian will be performing an evening of Romantic piano works at Oxted United Reformed Church, joined by the very talented Sophia Short. It’s going to be a relaxed, informal night, and we hope a genuinely lovely one,…
Christian came home today. He has been given an oral antibiotic instead of an intravenous one and, as such, he does not need to go into hospital for it. He seems in pretty good spirits, if a little bit disorientated.
Christian is now out of intensive care and into his own room in St George’s. The phone number there is 0704 6200076 (x3517), Claudia is there tonight. He is sleeping lots and whimpering a little bit but is being kept comfortable by pain killers. Most of the tubes and monitors that he was on yesterday…
I received an email yesterday from a lady whose 4 year old son has just had a relapse from a Wilm’s Tumour, a very similar situation we were in a few years ago. She told me that Christian’s story has given her a glimmer of hope during a terrible and frightening time. The fact that it…
This Sunday, our friend Jamie Williams will be lining up at the start of the London Marathon to run 26.2 miles for The Christian Blandford Fund! Jamie with Pete and Rob and the CBF TriathlonJamie has been training hard for months, long runs in all weathers, early mornings, and the kind of quiet dedication that…
Christian has been on very good form for the last couple of weeks. On Wednesday he even went into nursery for the morning, they have made of photo montage for the wall of his day in! The last few days he has had a bit of a cold and his temperature spiked to 38.5 on…