April 7, 2008...2:58 pm
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 no-one has commented. In addition, some of the posters have gone missing, while someone else has defaced one as being the Caspian Sea as the largest lake on Earth and the Sahara as the largest desert.
Let me make a few points. Firstly, it is possible that Lake Baikal and the Gobi Desert are not the largest, but amongst the largest on Earth and I have been misinformed. I was told Lake Baikal was the most voluminous by virtue of the fact the lake is recognised as being the deepest on Earth and containing over a fifth of the Earth’s fresh water. Secondly, while the Sahara is a very big desert, it contains several other deserts, notably the Libyan, Arabian and Nubian deserts, so it is not officially one entitity, as the Gobi is. I should have just said in true County Press style “one of the biggest” in both cases.
Besides which, I’ve already been to the Sahara!
I believe my colleagues are still missing the point. The whole idea of this challenge is not to prove whether Lake Baikal or the Gobi are the biggest, but to raise money for the Earl Mountbatten Hospice. So c’mon guys, give a girl a break!
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