Who’s for a party?

A very kind person has emailed me to say that flyers may not be particularly efficient as a publicity method and it might be better to throw parties for friends. This is a very interesting idea. Who would be interested in coming to a party to learn more about the challenge? Let me know!
I am [...]

Heartened and Disheartened

During the Bank Holiday weekend I have been putting out little piles of flyers in various pubs, cafes and shops to remind people about the Trans-Siberian Writing Challenge. I have been pleased with most people’s willingness to have a few flyers at their premises for customers to look at or pick up and take away [...]

The wonder of the World Wide Web

Aching muscles and blisters pretty much over today, I decided to Google both ‘transsibwriter’ and ‘Kate Young’ earlier and I was amazed at what I found!
I am all over the web! Strangely, as well as the blog entries and the County Press story coming up – which I expected – I have found several websites [...]

Walked The Wight

Yesterday (Sunday) Hugh and I did Walk The Wight in aid of the Earl Mountbatten Hospice. I have done the full route of at least seven times, but it was Hugh’s first go at this marathon-length charity walk, so we got up nice and early, caught a 6.15am bus to the start and actually began [...]

Record madness

I have received a form from Guinness World Records and one of the things you have to do IF they accept your challenge as a record attempt is to provide a video/DVD of the whole record attempt. Personally, this sounds like a bit of a nightmare. It would be difficult enough for me to video [...]

Is it a record?

Since my last post, my friends have come home, I’m living back in my own house and I’ve started trying to find out whether any aspect of this challenge is possibly a world record.
Firstly, I went onto the Guinness World Records website and tried a search for ‘writing’ and nothing came up. So I tried [...]

Getting back to normal!

Nearly everything is back to normal!
My parents got back last weekend and the horse has made a complete recovery! Now I am just house-sitting for my friends and they will be returning home this weekend after a month away, so I should be living back in my own house by Sunday (hurrah!)
Returning to my own [...]

Welcome to my wierd world!

It has been a very surreal week!
Early in the week I went about exploring how to make this blog look better – the results of which you can see now. I am not a very technically-minded person, so it took me a few goes (and a few curses) to make it work.
This week, I have [...]