The days are getting warmer, and more to the point, longer. It’s time to prepare for my Big Ride.
“Didn’t you already do that?” I hear you ask. “I remember chipping a few quid into your charity bucket.”
Well, yes. By the time I was fit enough to ride last year, the nights had drawn in so much that I wouldn’t have been able to cover the distance and still have daylight to take a picture or two of the interesting places I went through. So I did a bit of a ‘placeholder’ trip – “left-to-right” across the country, rather than “bottom-right-to-top-left.” (Follow the links on the right for the blog entries for November 2011; a jolly good read, I like to think.)
And yes, all my friends and family were extraordinarily generous, filling my charity bucket to well over half way towards the £1000 target for Cancer Research UK.
But now it’s time for the Big Ride proper. And no, I don’t expect everybody to dip their hands into their pockets once more – well, of course, if you feel so inclined, yes, please do – but my thought is that this time around, how about passing on a link to the blog to everybody you know? If they are suitably entertained by my bulletins from the byways, maybe they’ll chip in the price of a postage stamp, as though they’d received an unstamped postcard from me.
I’m aiming to set off on Saturday 5th May and get back by the following Saturday, having visited – and made pithy observations on - a score or so places that people might not normally visit.
