During the Ashes series, we have had hundreds of emails asking for over-by-over merchandise, suggestions for suitable slogans, and even a poll - which had over 5,500 votes - to rank readers' favourites.
One resourceful contributor, David Horn, has now gone several steps further by designing an Is It Cowardly To Pray For Rain slogan which is now available on a range of merchandise - T-shirts, mugs, even a thong for the more adventurous among you - which you can see here.
These aren't official guardian.co.uk products. However we wanted to give the project our blessing because all money raised (35% per sale) will go to a very worthy charity, the Laurie Engel Fund, which raising money to build a teenage cancer unit at Birmingham Children's Hospital. You can read more about the fund, and Laurie's life, in this heart-wrenching piece by Matthew Engel.
In a recent email to the OBO team, Matthew told us: "It's not far off finished now and the first patients should be in early next year. Compared to the existing facilities, it's going to be fabulous. From nothing four years ago, we've raised £875,000. But the unit costs £2.5m, so don't stop. Cheers and bless you."
Thanks, Sean.
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