By Chris Todd Torquay United defender

My fianc�e Gemma's wedding dress company has burnt down. So with 12 days to go she's panicking a bit. As I speak she's just left the house to go up to the shop to see if her dress is still in one piece!

It seems I've been on television a million times recently. It's been interesting things. I was doing TV match analysis in the cold and rain for the Wrexham match last week which was an experience, and I've had reporters around the house recently talking about my continued recovery from leukaemia.

On top of this, as you may have read before, I'm getting married soon but a rather large problem has reared its head.

My fianc�e Gemma's wedding dress company has burnt down. So with 12 days to go she's panicking a bit. As I speak she's just left the house to go up to the shop to see if her dress is still in one piece!

It's a big thing for us this wedding - I think she gets more stressed than I do - as she has a go at me every now again when it's not going right!

We were meant to get married in June but we brought it forward. It's going to be quite a big wedding, which is nice - we didn't plan for one but it just came about after my diagnosis with leukaemia.

I had my stag do at the weekend in Nottingham which was interesting to say the least...

While I didn't get tied to any lampposts I was dressed as a pink fairy cowgirl and did have interesting encounter (that was not to my liking) with a stripper!

Everyone at Plainmoor is focused on one of the biggest matches in the club's history on Saturday as we face Coventry City in the fourth round of the FA Cup.

The lads are buzzing as they've got everything to lose and we can go out there and play the game, enjoy it and hopefully get something out of it.

There are seven spaces on the substitutes' bench so you never know, I might pinch a spot if Paul Buckle thinks I'm ready to return.

Chris Todd was talking to BBC South West's Brent Pilnick.

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