According to Yahoo the weather during our walk is going to be partly cloudy with highs of 21 degrees celsius and only a 10% chance of rain. I do realize that forecasters can only predict the weather for 48 hours ahead with any degree of accuracy, and anything further than that is pure guesswork. However I’m going to ignore that fact for the sake of my mental health.
Nice and cool with no rain is just about the ideal conditions for walking in my book, and if it ends up scorching hot or chucking it down then I’m going to sue the forecasters at Yahoo weather for every penny they have.
Fundraising continues to gallop ahead at a very satisfying speed. I’m just hoping it doesn’t slow down before we reach our £2500 target. Thanks to everyone who has donated so far. If you haven’t donated yet you can do so here.
Neil is currently in negotiations with the local TV station who are considering lending us a camera in order to do a video diary for their webpage. The idea would be that we’d mail a tape to them at the end of each day and they would edit it and put it on the front page of their website.
I’m not sure how interesting our video diary would actually be, and trying to stop Sandip from swearing on camera would probably take more energy than the walk itself. But it sounds like a fun idea. It’s still all up in the air at the moment so might not happen, but watch this space.
I’m giving out two good egg awards today. The first one goes to Morticia. Not only did she organize a fundraising event at her work which raised a rather significant amount of money, but she also managed to persuade a medical supplies company to donate a load of blister plasters to sooth our aching feet. Thanks Morticia, and I’m sorry that the walk coincides with your birthday and so Kerry and I can’t come to the party.
The second one goes to Jeff from View from the Cloud who is currently running a competition on his blog in support of the Joseph Salmon Trust. From the amount of comments he’s got it looks like I may have killed his blog. So please go over there and say hello even if you don’t donate anything.
I’m running out of good egg graphics and so I thought I’d post a couple of videos in the winner’s honor instead. The first one is of Jeff’s band The Receders. Our man is the one on the piano with funny sounds coming out of his mouth (I think he’s trying to sing or something). The second video alas doesn’t feature Morticia, but I think she’ll enjoy it just the same.
Jeff / Morticia
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on Jul 18th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Ha. They can’t even do that anymore!
Rols last blog post..My Life In Movies
on Jul 18th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Don’t worry about my blog. As you know, people get a little nervous when you ask them for money – kind of like when a Girl Scout shows up at your door, except without all the yummy cookies. I’ll leave the contest open for a week if anyone wants to enter.
Jeffs last blog post..My Wife is a Hottie
on Jul 18th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
You’re in my thoughts!
on Jul 18th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Jeff – Looking forward to downloading the new Receders CD illegally and then burning copies for all my friends.
Matthew – Twitter is very tempting. I might look into if I can integrate it on a post rather than the sidebar.
on Jul 18th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
What is the video? when I click on it – it just comes up ‘error on page’ :-(
on Jul 18th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
As for the weather..I thought predicting the weather was a sure thing as long as you kept predicting rain?
I think a pack of blisterplasters a man will probably do.
And the receders..very cool music, it’s swinging!
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on Jul 18th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Gails last blog post..Our Wedding.
on Jul 19th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Arjan – It looks like the video diary is going to happen. I’ll give you more details as I get them
Gail – I’m not listening *sticks fingers in ears* la-la-la-la-la
on Jul 19th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Sams last blog post..Rainbow Beach
on Jul 19th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
on Jul 19th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Whits last blog post..Of Sore Feet and Heavy Hearts
on Aug 25th, 2008 at 4:14 am
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