Today the amount raised through our justgiving page passed £500.
It's been, at the same time, an inspiring and a humbling experience. Thanks, again, to all who have contributed so far.
We are now getting to the stage where contributors are coming from various places - not just the internet forum that Mark & I - and Tommy - post on, but from further afield, too, to the extent that none of us is quite sure who some of the people pledging money are.
I haven't been in the best of health in the last couple of weeks. That's slowed down my training programme somewhat - but I'm much better now and things should be back on track shortly. I can always take inspiration from Susie Hewer, who I have mentioned on here before.
Susie will be running her first marathon of the year this weekend. Then another one - the London Marathon - the weekend after. Then another the weekend after that. Then she'll take a rest, and much-deserved it will be.
I tried looking in google, to see whether this blog appears on it. And it does!
Bizarrely, one of the sites that links to it is based in India. It appears to be because of the appearance of the words "canal" and "rural;" "Canal Rural" is a TV station in Brazil which has links to the website in India. I'm not sure I can explain why!
Wednesday 14 April 2010
Friday 9 April 2010
We're off!
The justgiving site has only been up for a couple of days - and well over £300 has already been donated to it.
A most impressive start. Thanks to all who have made contributions.
Thanks, also, to the game, who has mentioned the walk on his blog, to which I have added a link.
A most impressive start. Thanks to all who have made contributions.
Thanks, also, to the game, who has mentioned the walk on his blog, to which I have added a link.
Wednesday 7 April 2010
Vive la révolution technologique Muntzienne
A mighty couple of days in my life, and in the life of 'four canal'.
The walk has its own justgiving site
Sparky - Mark Holtz - is the person who set it up, and it's already taken a fair amount of money from generous supporters.
But it's been a big couple of days for me, too.
I realsied some time ago that I would require - or at the very least, considerably benefit from - having a mobile phone with me on July 17th. And so, yesterday, I took the plunge, and bought one. I had only had one once before - that was in the 1990s, or, if you prefer, 'in the last century.' It was about the size of a TV remote control. And I only ever received two calls on it. One of which was a wrong number.
I've already received several on this new one. And several texts, too. Though most of the texts have come from the network provider. Usually along the lines of "Don't you think we are just brilliant?" Followed, as often as not, by one asking "On a scale of 1-10, just how brilliant do you think we are?"
Now I can join the ranks of those people who announce to everyone on a bus "I'm on the bus!!!!"
And I may, just, get the hang of texting.
I hope to do a longish walk on Thursday or Friday. On Saturdays the towpaths are inhabited by fishermen and cyclists, making them more difficult to negotiate. Weight loss seems to have slowed down somewhat, though my bathroom scales seem a bit erratic - latest weighing puts me at 14st 9lb, a couple of pounds more than I hoped to weigh by now, but 11 pounds less than I weighed at the start of the year and 17 pounds lower than my peak weight last autumn.
The walk has its own justgiving site
Sparky - Mark Holtz - is the person who set it up, and it's already taken a fair amount of money from generous supporters.
But it's been a big couple of days for me, too.
I realsied some time ago that I would require - or at the very least, considerably benefit from - having a mobile phone with me on July 17th. And so, yesterday, I took the plunge, and bought one. I had only had one once before - that was in the 1990s, or, if you prefer, 'in the last century.' It was about the size of a TV remote control. And I only ever received two calls on it. One of which was a wrong number.
I've already received several on this new one. And several texts, too. Though most of the texts have come from the network provider. Usually along the lines of "Don't you think we are just brilliant?" Followed, as often as not, by one asking "On a scale of 1-10, just how brilliant do you think we are?"
Now I can join the ranks of those people who announce to everyone on a bus "I'm on the bus!!!!"
And I may, just, get the hang of texting.
I hope to do a longish walk on Thursday or Friday. On Saturdays the towpaths are inhabited by fishermen and cyclists, making them more difficult to negotiate. Weight loss seems to have slowed down somewhat, though my bathroom scales seem a bit erratic - latest weighing puts me at 14st 9lb, a couple of pounds more than I hoped to weigh by now, but 11 pounds less than I weighed at the start of the year and 17 pounds lower than my peak weight last autumn.
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