Thank You For Your Support!
By Phillip Day

The final meeting of my UK tour was completed at Tregenna Castle in St Ives, Cornwall, England on 31st July. Looking back over some 145 dates we have completed, part of me balked a little to begin with at the sheer scope of what we had bitten off. However, a challenge is a challenge, and the original goal to get the CTM and Credence messages into parts of the UK we hadn't already visited was ably accomplished thanks in great measure to the sterling efforts of a huge number of people who helped organise the venues and promote them.

Samantha and I flew to the Isles of Scilly, off the south-west corner of England. We went to the Isle of Skye. We travelled from Ramsgate to Inverness, from Aberdeen to Plymouth, and went around Ireland and Wales. We did the cosy little provincial meetings; we did the metropolitan giants. We had good hotels, we had rotten hotels. We had one hotel, whose bathroom wall collapsed in the middle of the night as if someone had flown a jetliner into it. We did 14,000 miles in our trusty van, nicknamed Blanche. In fact, the only areas we didn't do were the Channel Islands, Setlands and Orkneys and the Isle of Man. Next year, we aim to do some of these areas at some point. If you live in these zones, and would like to help us promote a meeting to get the good word out, please e-mail Edward at edward@credenceman.freeserve.co.uk and he'll put your name down for next year.

I would like to thank all the hosts, who did such a selfless and marvellous job. I would like to thank the Credence team, including the Steves, Eddie, Jenny, Lucy, Sheryl, Kate, Lilly and Shirley for their amazing back-up. I would like to thank Samantha for her unflappable professionalism and keen organisation for running the book table. I would like to thank my father Edward for organising the whole thing with unfathomable energy. I would like to thank the Campaign for Truth in Medicine for their valuable part in promoting the talks. And lastly, I would like to thank each and every one of you who turned out in all weathers, some of you travelling great distances, because you had a yearning to help your country and your family take a turn for the better.

And in a sense, the question has been answered about what we are going to be doing next year. For, in travelling around the country of my birth, I was able to fall in love with it all over again, and see with a startling clarity what needs to be done to help her survive and thrive for the future. It's going to be a daring and provocative mission. Not like anything we have ever done before. Part of it will be about putting the 'Great' back into 'Britain'. And it's going to capture your imagination.

Until January, then!