Tag Archive | Sue Ryder Care
The Old Gits Bike Ride, day three
Another hearty breakfast awaited us on Sunday morning with kippers for Andy, always a highlight of any bike ride is watching Andy eat his kippers for breakfast just like in the Supertramp song, its a strange tradition but its meaningful for us all, its like watching the last relic of the British Empire right there [...]
The Amazing Dr Emmott…
There is a person I have known these past 44 years who never ceases to amaze me. Not only for the fact that he is a fully, and properly, without the aid of money and a certificate from an African University which may or may not exist, qualified Doctor of Medicine, not only for the [...]
The Reaction of Strangers
The really nice thing about doing something like the bike ride that we have just done is the support that you get from strangers and friends alike, both in good wishes and in financial terms and this has been highlighted this weekend by two simple acts of generosity which were prompted in each case by [...]
C2C – A Final Review
So its over, three months of planning and its over in three days. Was it hard work ? Not as bad as I thought it would be, back in the days when I used to do some of this stuff more frequently it was climbing the hills that really did me in, this time, eleven [...]
C2C – A Review – The Final Day
Ready to Enter Northumberland and still only halfway “The worst is over” I assured the boys over one of mad Hellens breakfasts the next morning, “there’s one more hill then its all downhill today lads” I assured them. How wrong I was, how the guide book lied to me. Turning left out of mad Hellens [...]
C2C Bike Ride
This is turning into a bit of an anthem for our upcoming torture weekend, 13 days and counting down, money is coming in from all directions now and I thank you all very, very sincerely if you have donated any amount to the cause – if you haven’t then avert your eyes to the right [...]
Birthday Felicitations to the youngest one
So its happy birthday to our last born offspring Jodie, 17 years old today. I’d say happy birthday to her myself but she’s not here this morning, so I’m taking advantage of the situation by eating all of the Cadbury’s Heroes that someone bought her – its what fathers are for. In fact my wife [...]
Meet the C2C Fools – Rodney
Look what happens when you reach “middle age”, see how the waist expands, see how the hair receeds, see how the hangdog expression remains long after you intended it to leave ? It happens to us all, Don Mclean can still sing his own superb lyrics though. But todays post has a dual purpose, for [...]
The blagging starts here…
Unashamedly I am on the scrounge. This summer, on the weekend of 17th to19th July to be precise, I and eight other 52 year olds like me will be riding the 147 mile Coast to Coast cycle route from Workington to Sunderland, Irish Sea to North Sea, on bikes of course, I’m sure you’d already [...]
Doing It For Chris
Looks like its a go-er Our 147 mile cycle ride across England, coast to coast. We now have a Just Giving page right here and at least one copy of the official Sustrans map, eight volunteers to date and six more targeted (you can run lads but you can’t hide, we know which pubs you [...]
