Days until the walk: 4
Amount raised so far: £2202 (about $4404)
Number of day’s I’m going to be incapacitated when it’s over: 85
The mighty Whit has really been going the extra mile to publicize the walk this week. Not only has he blogged about it on his site, but he’s also arranged for us to be featured on Parentricity, Divine Caroline, and StrollerDerby.
He’s also interviewed me over at Discovering Dad, so if you’d like to read my blatherings then make sure you go over and take a look.
Also, keep an eye out over at DadCentric and The Father Life over the next few days as we might be popping up there as well.
Sick of us yet?
Needless to say, Whit is the triumphant winner of today’s Good Egg Award:
In other news it looks like we definitely will be filming a video diary from the road. I had a chat with someone from ITV yesterday afternoon and it’s all sorted. Videos will be posted daily on the ITV local website (which I can’t seem to get the videos to work on at the moment but I’m sure that’s a problem up my end rather than theirs). It will all be a day behind in order to allow time to post the video back to them and for them to edit it, but it is still rather cool.
The videos will be various talking heads about how miserable we are interspersed with footage of the rain soaked Yorkshire Dales. They did say that if we could get footage of anyone falling into a river then we could possibly get onto You’ve Been Framed too, so my advice to my fellow hikers is don’t let me walk behind you on any bridges.
Yesterday Matthew suggested the idea of twittering from the road, so I’m going to try and set that up over the next couple of days. Anyone know if there is a way to actually put a twitter feed into the body of a blog post – that way I could post it up here and over on the Dales Walk blog so people could get a running commentary. I know you can do it in a sidebar, but I’ve never seen it in a blog’s main body. I’ll look into it.
My task for this weekend is to collect all the tents, equipment, and beer from the rest of the guys in order that Kerry can lug it all around for us. We may be stupid enough to try and walk 78 miles in 6 days, but we’re not stupid enough to try and carry our tents with us while we do it. Kerry has very generously offered to give up five days of her annual leave in order to drive all our gear from one sleeping point to another. No prizes for guessing who’s going to get my Good Egg Award tomorrow.
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Dan,
I’m so glad that Whit brought this story to me and the Discovering Dad community. It is a cause that hit’s close to home for me, and I will do everything I can to help get you guys some more exposure in the coming days. Thanks for all that you are doing to help raise money for this important cause, as well as support your friends. I look forward to hearing how things go.
Jeremy
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the whole lot of you are the dog’s bollocks! You, Whit, the rest of the walkers…
I’ll throw something up on my site today hopefully. Whit has set the bar pretty high, but any publicity is good publicity, right?
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Jeremy – Thanks so much for your support. As I say, the encouragement we ahve all got from the blogosphere has been amazing.
PG – The more that people come across news of the walk the more they will be encouraged to donate. Or that’s the theory anyhow and it seems to be working so far.
Dan, I just did my own post about your walk. I can’t promise a lot of extra traffic, but perhaps a few extra donations will come your way. My own included. I am excited for you, seems like a grand adventure. Something ordinary blokes like me rarely get. I actually wish I was going with you. Have fun!
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That must have been one ugly chicken.
Thanks, Dan. I’m glad to help. It’s nice to finally spread something that doesn’t require a shot of penicillin.
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Hey Dan, did you hear about the plague of locusts on their way up north? Apparently eating everything in their path! They must be looking for the plague of blisters heading your way too!
- YOU started it!
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Glad I came to Whit and James’ site tonight – was just the story I needed to hear. Dan good luck!
Blimey Dan, I hadn’t realised it is so close. I will blog it. Good luck, hope you’ve got some good blister plasters (you can get relly posh ones now that really help), and just go for it. You are all amazing and I’m praying for good walking weather for you.