Tara’s Gallery: Friendship
on May 26 in General by DanIt seems I am unable to let Tara’s Gallery meme pass by without warping it for my own purposes.
These are my friends, my closest friends. From left to right, top to bottom – Craig, Oli, Dave, Lee, Gav, Rich, Rich, a much fatter me, and Mushy.
I’ve known most of them since the age of sixteen and, aside from my wife, they are the people in who’s company I feel most like myself. It would probably take several pints of beer for me to say it, but I love these guys.
This photo was taken at the end of the Dales Way footpath. We’d just walked 76 miles in order to raise money for a charity set up by the one person out of that friendship group not in this photo, Neil Salmon.
As you all know by now, Neil lost his beautiful son Joseph when he was just 3 years old. He set up a charity in his name, The Joseph Salmon Trust. the trust provides financial support to those who have lost a child. Maybe to help with the cost of a funeral, or to allow the self employed a little time off work in order to grieve.
As you also know by now I’m doing another walk. Except this time not just with these guys, but with a whole bunch of other friends. There are 60 of us in total, and our numbers include such blogging glitterati as Xbox4NappyRash, Jo Beauxfoix, Dad Who Writes, Idaho Dad, Insomniac Mummy, Singleparentdad, Ed, Ajan, Clair, Cathrine, JJ Daddy-O, and ImPerceptible.
We’ll be walking 84 miles across the width of England on the Hadrian’s Wall Footpath. People are coming from all over the world to support this tiny little charity. Now that’s friendship.
So how can you help too? Well if you’re in the UK you can buy a raffle ticket of course. We have arranged some amazing prizes so it’s well worth your cash:
- 1st prize – Three night Family Keycamp Break in Europe
- 2nd prize – Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS62 Digital Camera
- 3rd prize – HP Photosmart Premium fax all-in-one printer
- 4th prize – Fortnum and Mason Hamper
- Six runner-up prizes – SimpleHuman electronic sensor soap dispenser
Just go here, leave your donation, tick the box that allows the charity to see your email address, and then wait to be contacted asking for your postal address so we can send the tickets to you. Simple.
Go on. You know I’m not going to stop pestering you until you do.
Also, if you blog about the raffle we’ll give you two additional free tickets!
Failing that you could always buy one of our sparkling pieces of Hadrian’s Walk merchandise as exhibited by our glamorous models:
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Fabulous! Love the knees & the hats! Good luck to them!
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I will blog again at the weekend about the raffle Mr and what great friends you all are
.-= TheMadHouse´s last blog ..The Gallery – Freindship =-.
soo next to the great cause we’re supporting there are 2 or 3 things that we should get out of this post:
1) You are one of your own closest friends (you..or the much fatter version..I’m not sure).
And you feel yourself in the company of yourself..that’s good I guess
2) ‘It would probably take several pints of beer for me to say it, but I love these guys.’ You were drunk while writing this post.
Looking forward to making one helluva group photo (let’s say..after the 3rd day).
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great photos, love the first one:) Jen
It wouldn’t be warped if it weren’t you.
Tell me, have you managed to somehow hi-jack the internet so that everytime we click to a new page a page flicks up so quickly that we don’t consciously register it, telling us to donate. Some kind of subliminal advertising?
This is awesome – great pictures and an even better reason behind them :D
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