My Three Minutes of Fame

May D Kelman

2006

In the early morning of Thursday, 21st September 2006 just as I was drifting off into another dream, the alarm clock shrieked and I threw myself out of bed, excited but nervous. Today, I would be walking round Loch Muick with a number of people raising money for Osteoporosis. Today, Camilla, the Duchess of Rothsay would be leading us and I had been asked to present to her a posy of flowers.

Running upstairs two at a time to the bedroom I hauled open the drawer, which contains the T-shirts and there it was, the black one, with white bones painted on the front and back. I had worn it at the Great North Run in Newcastle, and the Cyprus Four Day Challenge the year before. Both races had been undertaken in extremely hot weather. ... (continues)