Lapin is raising money for charity started for GGG's Maude and others, please help get her to her total

[Thomcat]

Hi you lovely lot.

The wonderful Lapin is raising funds for charity, one stared in the name of Maude -GGG's DD. Please can we help to smash her target, see the link here.

Thanks so much and love to you all x

ooooh jinx!

How pleased are we!

Did you do Mile for Maude?

Isn't one thread enough?

No it's not

No, one thread isnt enough for such a good cause.

Was it really the first time MN really came together to do something in RL? I don't mean meet-up wise, I mean soemthing which really did something.

There have been so many amazing examples lately, support for Trinity for example, but I wonder if Mile for Maude was the first? I wasn't around before that.

And I'm pleased to see it's had such a lasting legacy for FSIDs.

now now bibbity

it's a great cause and the wabbit's back and a few of us are a bit excited, can you tell??

Oh, well done TC - I clicked on the other thread a minute ago, having ignored it earlier because I thought it would be a tongue in cheek thread by a notorious scrounging troll...only to find it was Lapin.

I remember a v lovely day in a S London park with some lovely MN-ers

Mary, I can't remember if the XMas appeal came first, started by Soapbox, and there were plenty of small scale help going on, but Lapin's fundraising for FSIDS in memory of Maude was the first, nationwide effort I think. It was massive. Brilliant.

and it's bloody great that FSIDS have adopted it as an annual thing due to it's success.

I still have the t-shirt, actually

Ah right, first Christmas appeal must have been before my time.

If I remember rightly though, it did reach the newspapers, even back in the days when there were hardly any people on MN, just because it was fairly unusual for a "community of invisible people" to join forces like that.

I think it was before AIBU appeared and everything went downhill...

I remember when all this round here was just fields....

Spoof, it's amazing that the FSIDs have adopted it as an annual thing isn't it