Slacker

Firstly I would like to apologise for not having blogged in AAAAAGES (what a loser), and I feel especially bad since the recent discovery that we have regular readers (wooohoooo!!), although I have something of an excuse in that I've been stupidly busy moving stuff home from Uni, which has proved to be a mammoth task as I have accumulated so much junk in the past three years that we only just managed to get it all home in two car loads... and that wasn't even with the bed. :s Having said that, one of those cars was only my piddly little Citroen, aka The Tin Can... to be honest I'm surprised it made it all the way up there. The journey wasn't that fun either, was like being stuck in a sauna for three hours. Someone thought black interiors was a great idea in a car with no a/c, windows that don't roll down the whole way and a fan that is about as effective as a chocolate teapot. But, all this accumulated junk means much to sell at this car boot sale... hurrah! Which is G-R-E-A-T... one man's junk is another man's treasure and all that, or words to that effect.

Well, anyway, sponsorship for this Brecon Beacons thing is going extremely well, all my friends have been more than generous, and mum and dad have excelled themselves going round all their friends which is FABULOUS, and I think the current sponsorship stands somewhere between the £6-700 mark, so thank-you so much to everyone that has sponsored me so far. In fact, if you look to the right of the page you will observe that Queen Kate of HTML has updated the Jen-ometer, and with the stuff we'd already raised that takes us up to a total of nearly £900; almost a whole third of the way there... which I think calls for a celebratory dance *does a jig*

Right. Jig done. Next on the agenda... I'm mid-letter-writing to some trusts and things, as I've been informed that they like to donate to these sorts of causes. I've been looking on the Charities commision website for people that are relevant and found some organisations that focus on Costa Rica and Nicaragua which is great, and I'm going to write to the local Lions/Rotary/Round table as well, but if anyone has got any other ideas who I could write to then please let me know! I'm going to try and compose some sort of little brochure type thing about Raleigh and what they do to include with it to make it look like I've put the thought and effort into it... which of course I have....

Also, I'm going to be organising some kind of party around Hallowe'en, probably a fancy dress malarky, in my village. So next thing is getting the hall booked, and sorting out the 'entertainment', although my great friend Bob is a bit of a DJ genius, so he's said that he'll do that for a minimal fee for me if he's around which is brilliant. Also, I've been chatting to the landlady of my local pub who just happened to be my supervisor in a weekend job I had a couple of years ago, and she's said that I can put on a Raleigh International week at the pub sometime late summer, so there'll be different things going on every night that week to raise money... I'm thinking a twister tournament, raffle etc... So provisional plans are going well... just have to actually get on and organise it all now... argh.......