Join Jack's Team £2 donation for chance to win -

[flavourartuk]

I felt I should sign up and pay you guys a visit

I'm so often gobsmacked by the kindness, help & generosity of the vaping community on here & elsewhere. I wouldn't normally post a link here on UKV to my AAE-C forum as I feel it would usually be out of order. However, just have to give some kudos to Jayjay especially, as well as the other members -

allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=lounge&action=display&thread=13202&page=4

Thanks Chrissie for posting the link, thank you so much to the AAE-C members for Joining Jack's Team,
a special thank you to JayJay who sold his Silver Bullet and donated the proceeds to Jack, truly awesome!
Thank you to the members on UKV for continuing to add to the growing total which is now almost half way
to the £1k target, I know we can reach it by Dec 31st.

Yesterday my wife and me went to visit Jack and we had a lovely afternoon. Jack was in 'entertaining' mode
and once he had done his curious-but-coy bit we had two hours of rough and tumble, 'donkey' rides, feet-tickling,
raspberry-blowing and general mayhem. Jack made lots of eye contact, accompanied by his charming smile, and
was communicating, even though the words weren't too clear; he was obviously enjoying himself and we certainly were.
We got some video clips and photos and these will be passed on to the guys at VTTV for editing and hopefully viewing soon.

All the time, effort, and resources that so many people, many of them strangers, are contributing is making a real difference
to Jack and his family. Jack has made good progress this year and the Son-Rise programme is helping towards unlocking the
doors that threatened to separate his world from ours. He's such a beautiful young lad full of love and life and has family and
friends around him to ensure it is reciprocated. I felt priveleged yesterday, that Natalie and Mark let me 'borrow' their son,
and that Jack accepted me enough for us to have a couple of hours of interaction.

When we left, having spent over two hours instead of the expected one, I got a hug and a kiss and a smile. As we were
getting into our car my wife pointed out that Jack was standing on the window sill watching us go, so I had to climb on
the car and wave back to him! Jack's cause is a most worthy one, but more than that he is a lovely human being who just
needs some help and lots of love. I hope I can bring a little of him to you and say thank you on his behalf.

Best wishes

John


The T-shirt reads, 'I am the Stig's fat cousin', but to Jack I was just a donkey!




£483.50 raised - Target is £1,000

1. William
2. Michael
3. Louise
4. Tracey
5. Matt
6. Tom
7. Mohammad
8. Colin
9. Peter
10. Ken
11. Dave
12. Araz
13. Andy
14. Anon
15. Alba Vapours
16. Neil
17. Andrew
18. Emil
19. Sarah
18. Emil
19. Sarah
20. Stealthvape
21. Jaqueline
22. Matthew
23. Tim
24. Diane
24. Adam
25. Gayle
26. Mark
27. Andrew
28. Kevin
29. Gordy
30. Lynda
31. Neil
32. Russell
33. Mark
34. Rachel
35. Christine
36. Alison
37. Roger
38. Kenneth
39. Ian
40. Rob
41. Gwen
44. Pierre
43. Gary
44. Carl
45. Toni
46. Nick
47. Ellen
48. Steve
49. Pam
50. Sarah
51. Steve
52. Sandra
53. Nicky
54. Vape Escape
55. Mike
56. Mary
57. James
58. Andrew
59. Gerald
60. Kathryn
61. Michael
62. Kevin
63. Karl
64. Steven
65. Justin
66. Dennis
67. Steve
68. JayJay


BTW cheques are fine, just send to address below and it will be added in.

That's Nice Limited
Suite 112
Glenfield Park
Philips Road
Blackburn
BB1 5PF

[Chrissie]

Lovely to see you here John & thanks for posting

When I first moved down to Cornwall, the first friend I made was with an autistic neighbours son. 11 years ago, he could hardly speak to anyone, but he has changed so much.

Many years ago when I was living in Sussex, a colleague's daughter was attacked & left for dead. She survived but was unable to speak or move We all grouped together to help her - not just to raise funds but to help with, at that time, a virtually unknown therapy in the UK. We had a rota going to make sure that every day 5 of us would spend our lunch hour/evenings/weekends helping her to gently move her limbs & head - I think it was called patterning? It took a long time but the results where amazing.

[timnowvapes]

bump -

[Ratfinkz]

Just read johns post and have to say am choked up! Have made a few donations now, and wish he lived closer so I could volunteer some time when I'm well again!!!

[jayjay]

Well I haven't got kids, but a fathers love for his child can be pretty powerful.
I can't seem to embed videos, but anyone seen this on YouTube. It's team hoyt. A father son bond from the u. S. Very moving. Come on peeps. Help this bloke reach his target.

[timnowvapes]

JayJay........

[youtube] your youtube vid url here [/youtube]

[timnowvapes]

bump pu tee bump

[Fog On The Tyne Ltd]

The halfway mark has now been reached

[timnowvapes]

Up to £506.50 - what great going by some very generous vapors, and vendors!



....oh, and bump

[timnowvapes]

....nudge?

[boo]

Nudge nudge

[lynwlt]

Donation made by the friends of our blind vaper, Angie, to show our gratitude to all those who contributed.

It should show up as payment made by 'figgysal'.

Many thanks guys.

[lynwlt]

It's showing up as another donation from Lynda..

I've asked John if he can chage it to ''figgysal''....

Didn't want anyone to think I was trying to cheat to get another 'ticket' for the raffle.

[lynwlt]

Has been changed to 'Sally' now....

Gives me a reason to 'bump' Jack up again..

[Chrissie]

Lynda, there is no way any of us would have thought you were trying to cheat