From: slider@atashram.com

A 99-year-old army veteran who has joined the fundraising fight against Covid-19 has "smashed" his £500,000 target.

Tom Moore aims to complete 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden by
Thursday, walking with the aid of a frame.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52269398

He originally hoped to raise £1,000 for NHS Charities Together, to thank "magnificent" staff after recent treatment for a broken hip and cancer.

He said: "I thank the British public from the bottom of my heart."

"Who would have thought that when I set a target of £1,000 a week ago, it
could have reached £500,000?" he added.

More than 24,000 people have contributed funds; he has appeared on TV; and singer and actor Jason Donovan has tweeted him birthday wishes.

Mr Moore has completed 70 laps of the 25-metre (82ft) loop in his garden
in Marston Moretaine, and is taking them on in 10-lap chunks.

However, with the hot weather over the weekend, he decided to do 10 laps
over two days to pace himself.

He is still ahead of schedule and hopes to complete the 2.5km (1.6 miles) distance by Thursday, instead of his initial target of his 100th birthday
on 30 April.

Mr Moore was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, and trained as a civil
engineer before enlisting in the army for World War Two, rising to captain
and serving in India and Burma.

Mr Moore's daughter, Hannah, said when she told him he had reached
£500,000 "there was stunned silence".

"We are completely floored by the amount of support flooding in - it's
just incredible and he is smashing his target," she said.

"We say he needs a rest but he says that so long as he is slow and steady,
he will reach it."

A 100th birthday party with 100 guests has had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus restrictions.

But when a 1940s-style singer booked to attend serenaded him online, he
was able to join in.

### - as of 9am this morning that fund has now reached a staggering
£945,000! ($1.2 million!) and is set to continue growing as publicity of
it spreads now via tv and social media, even people like a certain piers
morgan (a genuine uk monster of a human being lol) chipping 10-grand into
it as old captain tom continues to slowly cover more ground, people from
abroad adding to it too via social media...

collecting up to 50 million being kinda standard here for
kids/red-nose-day etc; don't then be that surprised if captain toms' fund
keeps growing to several million too, maybe even 100's of millions at this rate! lol who knows!

setting out originally to raise only a modest £1000 for the health
service, i wouldn't be that surprised if he ends up funding the whole damn thing for a few days lol :)))

a million pounds in only 4 days and the publicity's only just coming out
about it now??

the larger it gets being the more peeps worldwide are getting to hear
about it + the bigger it then becomes!

rather curious the kinds of things that are happening in this info-age
innit :)

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From: slider@anashram.com

setting out originally to raise only a modest £1000 for the health
service, i wouldn't be that surprised if he ends up funding the whole
damn thing for a few days lol :)))

a million pounds in only 4 days and the publicity's only just coming out about it now??

the larger it gets being the more peeps worldwide are getting to hear
about it + the bigger it then becomes!

rather curious the kinds of things that are happening in this info-age
innit :)

### - his fund raiser reached £6 million this morning lol, that's $7.5
million!

and he's talkin' about taking up jogging now LOL (kidding) :D

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From: slider@anashram.com

setting out originally to raise only a modest £1000 for the health
service, i wouldn't be that surprised if he ends up funding the whole
damn thing for a few days lol :)))

a million pounds in only 4 days and the publicity's only just coming
out about it now??

the larger it gets being the more peeps worldwide are getting to hear
about it + the bigger it then becomes!

rather curious the kinds of things that are happening in this info-age
innit :)

### - his fund raiser reached £6 million this morning lol, that's $7.5 million!

and he's talkin' about taking up jogging now LOL (kidding) :D

### - did i say £6 million? better make that £12 million lol...

captain tom effectively doubling it overnight by adding yet another £6
million in only 24-hours!

his first million taking 4-days, it's now accruing at the rate of £1
million every 4 hours lol :)))

so who knows where it'll get to eventually huh...

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/tomswalkforthenhs

place yer' bets! :)

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From: slider@atashram.com

- did i say £6 million? better make that £12 million lol...

captain tom effectively doubling it overnight by adding yet another £6 million in only 24-hours!

his first million taking 4-days, it's now accruing at the rate of £1
million every 4 hours lol :)))

so who knows where it'll get to eventually huh...

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/tomswalkforthenhs

place yer' bets! :)

### - and only 24-hours later again now stands at an amazing £17,343,424
lol (that's $21,671,389!)

holy super-donations batman! what one man can achieve eh?

he can be my agent any time! :)))

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### - and only 24-hours later again now stands at an amazing £17,343,424 lol (that's $21,671,389!)

holy super-donations batman! what one man can achieve eh?

he can be my agent any time! :)))

holy bat-shit china virus.

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From: slider@anashram.com

- and only 24-hours later again now stands at an amazing £17,343,424
lol (that's $21,671,389!)

holy super-donations batman! what one man can achieve eh?

he can be my agent any time! :)))

holy bat-shit china virus.

### - having now completed his pledge the donations are still pouring in
from across the globe...

current total now running at £21,450,325! ($26,833,284) lol

holy feckin' jesus batman! :)))

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current total now running at £21,450,325! ($26,833,284) lol

### - it's still going even though he's now completed his stated task...

and has now reached a staggering £25,743,369! (that's $32,203,667 folks!)

holy hump! :)))

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