To Brum and Back.....
Hi All!
I saw this cartoon and it made me chuckle! I'm sure Dave will appreciate it too! As regular readers will know, Dave spends his Friday nights at a swimming pool where they hold kayak sessions, Dave's been going for some time and kept telling me I should go along. Well a few weeks ago I took him up on his offer, I've never seen so many kayaks in one place in my life, it was like a minature Spanish Armada! People in kayaks everywhere were capsizing, rolling and practicing new moves. It was a good opportunity for me to make sure I could get out of a boat safely should the need arise (I'm still with the theory that I'll be staying dry) and so with the help of the canoe club staff I did a bit of capsizing and got out fine. I couldn't grasp rolling back up again but am happy enough not to master that one, am not sure my nose could take any more chlorine! Dave and I managed to master a move where we helped each other to roll back up so that was good.
Today has been a good day, I dragged Katie along to the National Boat, Caravan & Outdoor show at the NEC in Birmingham. I had decided that the time had come to go out and buy the boat that would be taking me on this voyage. The kayak section was in the very last hall and so as I walked past all of the massive motor boats (some even had crew quarters!!) I couldn't help but think that Dave and I had chosen the wrong mode of transport! At last we came to the kayaks and the first person I came to was Matt from the Leam Boat Centre who I had met last year (see previous post) and it was nice to see a familiar face. Matt was, again, really helpful and took the time to take me through all the boats available and which would be best. Anyway after much deliberating and bartering between different stands I stumped up 400 of the Queens English pounds and took home the same Kayak that Dave has (except mines in blue). I'm well chuffed with it and am looking forward to taking it on it's maiden voyage this week. Once again huge thanks to Matt (www.leamboatcentre.com) and also to Dan from Desperate Measures (www.desperate-measures.co.uk) in Notts who put together a good deal for me. If I can drag Kate to the canal with me this week I'll post some shots of the new boat.
It was fantastic to see the sponsorship total smash through the £1000 mark earlier this month, a huge thanks to all who have donated so far, it's brilliant! There's still loads of time between now and when we set sail and so wouldn't it be great if we could get the total to two grand!! With a bit of luck, there should be some media coverage in the newspapers over the next couple of weeks which might generate further interest, thanks to Debbie Mather for sorting.
Think thats about all for now. Today marks the end of my seventh week of no smoking, it's going well!
Adam
This entry was posted
on Sunday 24 February 2008 at 12:11.
You can skip to the end and leave a response.
» Post a Comment