I have been invited to go sailing tomorrow. Not just any old sailing either, but a trip out on an Extreme 40, which is a cutting edge technology racing catamaran as favoured by Ellen MacArthur (who won the Round The Island yacht race in one last year) and Shirley Robertson.
I am somewhat nervous of the [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 26, 2008
Plain Sailing
June 25, 2008
Celebrity status?
I never expected to be talked about much when I started this, but I have been surprised by how many people have stopped me recently to talk about the challenge. Everyone is fascinated by it and I am beginning to feel like a bit of a celeb – weird!
For anyone who has looked at www.justgiving.com/transsibwriter [...]
June 16, 2008
Fantastic IW Festival!
I had a great time at the Isle Of Wight Festival at the weekend. It didn’t rain on the good old sunny Isle Of Wight and the music was fantastic.
I particularly liked the finale by The Police, who played every hit and knew and then some and just kept giving the audience more. Hugh and [...]
June 13, 2008
It’s not a record!
I have had word from Guinness World Records that the Trans-Siberian Writing Challenge is not a world record – and I am actually quite glad! Although it would be very exciting to make a world record, it would be murder to video the whole thing!
I am quite looking forward to the Isle of Wight Festival [...]
June 11, 2008
Isle Of Wight Festival Fever!
The Isle Of Wight is gearing up for the fabulous IW Festival this weekend and already there are copious amounts of things going on at Seaclose Park, where the IOW Festival is held.
I am quite looking forward to hearing some of the acts, including the Sex Pistols, James, The Kooks and The Police, but there [...]
June 9, 2008
It wasn’t me that did it!
My apologies to Press Gazette – I saw the online story and didn’t realise they had already published it in Friday, May 30’s issue. Unfortunately it is always hard to get your hands on Press Gazette in my office because everyone likes to browse through it and we are quite a big team.
Unfortunately, I didn’t [...]
June 4, 2008
All systems go!
Lots of things are currently happening.
Yesterday, a story about the challenge went on the Press Gazette website, together with the blog address and donation details, which was really good of them and means journalists across the UK will find out more about what I am doing. I am hoping they might put it in the [...]
