The winding roads of North Yorkshire are calling
So I’m riding up to North Yorkshire very early tomorrow morning, hoping to miss the festival-goers around Leeds. Destination is a tiny little place (well it looks tiny on Google Maps!) not far from Darlington. A few days of rest and relaxation with loved ones, some good hill-walking, and a trip to the Altberg factory before coming back down mid-week to get ready for a 2-week medical course.
Thanks to all in the Twitter-verse for your mentions and retweets today. It’s struck me today just how time-consuming running this sort of event is. Global connectivity brings everyone and their interests to the fore, and it’s tough when wanting to raise funds to build an online personality which will endear you to a public to whom, largely, you may remain forever a stranger. Especially when many of these digital communications are crammed into so few words.
For those who aren’t familiar with St. Dunstan’s, here are three very touching short clips, featuring soldiers who have found new meaning in their lives after being wounded in the service of their country.
Phew! It’s been a very hard day at the office, dear.
The website is up and running, although very few static pages – the stuff which actually tells readers what it’s all about, are complete. That’s a job for when exams are over. In the meantime, please get in touch if you have any questions – in a nutshell, there’s four of us who have decided to raise money for Forces’ Charities, and our first challenge is the Brighton Marathon in 2011. As our name suggests, 2 of us will be blindfolded, and the other 2 will be leading. It’s all to raise money for St. Dunstan’s, who do fantastic work for blind ex servicemen and women.
Perfect timing! I’m off ‘Up North’ for my girlfriend’s birthday in a few days and am paying a visit to the Altberg factory in Richmond to look at their boots. I’m well-informed that they’ll be able to find a pair that fit just right. Issue boots, in my limited experience, just aren’t good enough to pound the streets the amount we are for these challenges.
And while I’m there I’m hoping they’ll take a donation tin (which was the point of this post) to put by their tills, as four have arrived from St. Dunstan’s this morning.
Optical Express have kindly provided black-out glasses for us to train with. Photos to follow. Many thanks to Lindsay Taylor and Joanna Patterson in their Marketing & Communications department.