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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 31st, 2006
By text from the Artic;Finished first day of 30k breaking a trail through some woods up hill 2 flat plains with a low, barely there orange sun. Bright and warm one minute then windy snowy freezing the next. Goggles steamed up and then froze. Got off 2 a less than professional start having run around [...]
Posted in Accessibility on Jan 30th, 2006
Well, Henny appears to have survived the first day handling sled and huskies, even if the temperature isn’t quite what she’d prefer. At least they’re still all together, and since she didn’t say anything about being lost in the wilderness, I’m assuming the rest of the sledging team are there too. Hopefully, they’ve reached the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2006
Well, we know Henny made it to the airport ‘cos she texted to say meeting everyone in the group was like the first episode of Big Brother. Considering the success of the last Essex girl in BB, we can take that as an auspicious sign. Henny should now be in far north of Norway having [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2006
Happy Chinese new year, which also happens to be year of the dog. So I’m packed, dressed in 4 layers of thermals (and that’s just for this country) and ready to hit the Arctic to hang out with huskies armed with a hip flask and a plastic, non-magnetic compass as a talisman. Hopefully they don’t [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2006
285 strips later (I know it’s been a busy week, especially in this weather, but it’s all part of the training), £500 has been raised from the raffle and £500 from the unwanted Christmas present sale. This has tipped the balance of money raised to a whopping total of £6,817! Right, that’s it, I’m off [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2006
A million thanks to everybody who’s sponsored me dog sledding. Thanks to the contributions from people both online and offline plus a crack team of fundraisers the target has been overshot by 2k. So I’ve upped it to 6k. Cheeky I know but worth it. I had an email today confirming that an order has [...]