In the beginning...

Teaching is a stressful job especially when two of your classroom chairs are missing and the typically keen and academically hungry students of Shrewsbury School are denied the chance to learn in comfort.

Master of Maths Marcus Johnson was concerned for the welfare of his students and for the missing blue chairs. He determined to retrieve the 'blue wanderers' and restore equilibrium to his classroom.

So he sent out a distress email to all staff in the hope that his colleagues might have spotted the errant seats of learning. Eagle-eyed School House Housemaster Giles Bell saw them 'frolicking' with the benches in his garden but they had disappeared into town before he could get to them.

He was concerned alcohol may have been involved.

Since then they have been spotted enjoying their new found freedom in many places but at present they remain at large. Giles Bell has become sadly obsessed with their whereabouts and has managed to photograph them in many places without actually retrieving them as he is very unfit! However his obsession has born fruit.....

He has captured some very rare pictures of blue chairs in the wild and is making the first known study of blue chair behaviour. A book is to be launched in the near future in which the behaviour patterns of these generally shy creatures are chronicled. All proceeds from the sale of these books will go to Cure Leukaemia and the Shropshire Blood Trust Fund. But if you can't wait for the book to come out and want to donate now then hit the Donate button at the top of the website.

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From Russia With Love- The Tale of a Blue Chair Hero who is now 18 years old!

Artem Botcharov came to Shrewsbury from Moscow in September 2000. He is a keen guitarist and enjoys serious heavy metal by bands such as Slayer. He was diagnosed with acute myloid leukaemia in the early summer of 2005. Artem has had to undergo two bone marrow transplants and the great news is that despite the first one not working the second has and he is on the long road back to full health. He is the one and only official BLUE CHAIR HERO! He has recently celebrated his 18th birthday and is learning to drive.

His bravery and resoluteness has inspired the whole blue chair movement and is the reason for this website. We want to help leukaemia sufferers like Artem and to do that we need money. We hope everyone in the world will buy a copy of the blue chair book so that Cure Leukaemia and The Shropshire Blood Trust Fund can be better equiped to cure and care for their patients!

Artem hates sympathy but if you want to leave him a message why not sign in to our guest book.