March 29, 2023
Latest guests to the Arch 13/Connolly’s emporium might have chanced upon a frankly ridiculous poster which may lead you to query the sanity of sure members of the staff.
Within the first occasion, Nathan (younger, match, ridiculously wholesome and slim) shall be endeavor his first marathon on April 16th in Manchester and is fundraising for British Coronary heart Basis. That is clearly a really wise and worthy endeavor for somebody within the peak of life and health. He’ll be tearing around the course in the hunt for a good time and any help you could possibly supply can be very warmly appreciated.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/nathanmhampson
A few weeks later we, that’s Tania and Chris (now not within the first flush of youth – not gonna lie, we’ve received 122 years between us) shall be placing our legs, backs, hearts, heads and marriage vows to the check and leaping aboard the Birmingham-Wick Specific to pedal our manner south from John O’Groats with the lofty ambition of reaching Lands Finish some 3 weeks later. To make this a bit tougher we’re additionally fully self-supporting so carrying all our personal stuff and endeavor the entire train with out a lot as a security internet.
Which is why Chris began to get only a teensy bit twitchy over the weekend.
Even when you’ve by no means been up that far, you understand how stunningly stunning the north of Scotland is since you’ve seen the photographs and the jigsaws and the journey documentaries and the solar casting its smile over the heather-strewn panorama and even probably the most hardened Sassenach will get to really feel a stirring of their bones and an awesome urge to develop their hair, paint their face blue and scream “FREEDOM” at passing strangers.
Which was form of the place we had been as much as till Google Streetview interrupted our route planning on Sunday with photos of mile after mile after mile of uninhabited moorland suffering from the corpses of end-to-enders whose solely crime was to skip the damaged spoke module of “bike upkeep made straightforward.”
Apparently it will get fairly moist as properly.
Anyway, that’s our Might taken care of so do you have to discover it inside yourselves to chip in just a few quid to both British Coronary heart Basis and/or UHB Charity that may be totally marvellous. Each charities are near our hearts and the tales are on our justgiving pages.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/chris-connolly11
