BRAVE ladies – and a couple of men – dared to bare their lumps and bumps in a naked charity calendar.
The group of Roxwell women included Andrea Warden and Julia Wells, whose dad and husband were diagnosed with cancer on the same day in February.
On a whim the ladies decided to create a bucket list - an itinerary of things to do before they die - and the All For The Love Of Life calendar idea was born.
"We were chatting about life in general, all of us friends are around 50 years of age, and we just said 'this is not good everyone is just popping off around us'," said organiser, Andrea, 48.
"We said we had to do a bucket list and to write down as many things as possible on it.
"Our aim was also to do things for charity but the naked calendar was just a joke.
"Everyone laughed when I said we are going to do it, but everyone in the village still got involved."
On the launch night at the Chequers Pub over 100 calendars were sold, making more than £600 for Farleigh Hospice, Cancer Research UK and Macmillan.
"Nobody had seen the pictures before the event, I tried not to look at myself," said Andrea.
"All the photos were taken in Roxwell, from farms to the fields, and were chosen by votes from people in the pub a few months ago."
The calendar has attracted a following on Facebook before it was even revealed, getting requests from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
"We have had some laughs making this calendar, riding around Roxwell on horseback – naked," said Andrea, who looks after 63 horses in Roxwell.
"The January photo is a couple who just came down to the horse yard, at Dukes Farm, to look after their horse and asked us what we were doing.
"When we told them, they disappeared into the stables, returned naked, and said, 'where do you want us'? We even got caught by a man mowing his lawn when we ran into a field with just knickers on."
To buy a calendar or for more information visit www.allfortheloveoflife.co.uk.
