Moving on

Lots of things have happened over the weekend.
Firstly, the story did go into the County Press on Friday, which is a start. Also Dave in the County Press Shop said he would distribute some leaflets for me at the Robin Hill Garden Show over the weekend, which was great.
I have also just joined Facebook, found [...]

Incoming post!

Today a very large envelope arrived from The Russia Experience with our invoice, travel plans etc.
Also included were forms for the Russian, Mongolian and Chinese visas, so I am sure we will be spending quite a few hours filling those in before we have to send them off with our passports!
Best of all, The Russia [...]

Hurrah for websites!

Wow – I’m on the IW County Press website!
As well as doing a story on my challenge in this week’s newspaper, which comes out on Friday, May 25, my company has just put my challenge on the front page of the County Press website, which can be found on www.iwcp.co.uk – so hopefully lots more [...]

C’est La Vie!

Do you ever get the feeling things were simply not meant to be?
Thankfully, I am not talking about the big trip, but about my pony’s showjumping final yesterday.
I gave up wine and chocolates last week and set about just eating fruit and veggies to ensure I would be as light as possible for him – [...]

Cheque sent!

It was with great trepidation that I filled in all the forms last night, added any extra information I thought would be interesting to the team at The Russia Experience and signed the cheque for Nikki’s and my deposits and then posted the whole lot.
There’s no going back now – not that I could anyway [...]

Exciting Times

As I entered the house at almost 9pm last night, the phone was ringing.
I picked it up and it was Nikki. We are finally ready to finish the booking of our trip and last night we made all the final decisions about day-trips and stop-overs.
Nikki is now going to look for flights while I do [...]

Countdown to Walk The Wight

I suddenly realised this morning that it is only about a month until Walk The Wight. For those of you not familiar with this event, it is a large charity walk in aid of the Earl Mountbatten Hospice, which takes place each May.
There is the full route from Bembridge on the east of the Island [...]

Fortune favours the brave!

Despite hardly being able to walk, I hauled my (bruised) behind onto my novice horse, Zack, yesterday (Sunday) to do his showjumping championship.
He won the award for most points during the winter league (a series of several shows) and we jumped round the course to be third in the Novice Horse Championships, so I was [...]

Ups and downs

My colleagues are finally beginning to realise something is going on! Better still, it has been suggested that I can write a story about the challenge to go in the newspaper, which I did yesterday and will go in this Friday or next.
Also, I have been in touch with the hospice because I was terrified [...]

Bah-Humbug!

I am slightly perturbed by the response of my colleagues at work to my madcap challenge. I put posters up all over the building more than two weeks ago to tell everyone what I was doing.
To date, not one of my colleagues has sponsored me, I don’t think anyone has read the blog and certainly [...]