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Save the World on Sunday Morning

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 02:54pm on 12/05/2004
I am doing a 7-mile sponsored walk for OXFAM this Sunday, and this is a last plea for sponsors!

Pledges welcome, donations can be GiftAid eligible but you'll need to let me know your proper name and postal address if I don't know them (e-mail lj at bugshaw . cix . co . uk). I'm up to £79 so far but it would be great to top £100.

This will be a more hideous walk than one might normally think, as MC and I are having a games weekend/party on the same day and it will be Really Difficult to leave my bed at 7am to go walking... However, I will be accompanied by the lovely [livejournal.com profile] purpletigron and her mother, which will provide something of an impetus (i.e. I don't dare be late for fear of being subjected to 7 miles of taunts of "Bed Bug! Bed Bug!").

Hmmm. It still astonishes me sometimes when I realise I'm not disabled.

Thank you for your consideration!
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I've got the map now, but I don't remember the area with 100% clarity...

posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 07:21am on 12/05/2004
Mater asked me to check - is the route 'cross-country' at any point (e.g. uneven ground), or is it well-beaten paths? She's worried she might be a bit slow on a rough route?

I'm going to see if I can raise some sponsorship at aikido tonight!!!

By the way Oxfam isn't written OXFAM any more :-)
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Re: I've got the map now, but I don't remember the area with 100% clarity...

posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 07:56am on 12/05/2004
It looks fairly well-beaten, though the elevation goes from 110 to 70 and back up again (units unknown). Not suitable for wheelchairs or pushchairs. The picture on the web site I linked to above looks a bit hilly, but this chap's pictures look fairly flat (he did the 14-miler, which is a different route).

Oops! Of course it's not written OXFAM...
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Re: I've got the map now, but I don't remember the area with 100% clarity...

posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 08:02am on 12/05/2004
Oops! Of course it's not written OXFAM...

It did used to be, many years ago :-)

It looks fairly well-beaten...

Mater's walking club regularly does 5 miles over ploughed fields in the winter, but that is quite hard going and slow. Suitable for wheelchairs would have to be really flat and level unless you were a wheelchair athelete, after all.

When all's said, Oxfam don't want these walks to be very hard :-)
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posted by [identity profile] rhubarbfool.livejournal.com at 07:33am on 12/05/2004
Put me down for a fiver (as long as I don't have to give it to you till later this month (after 24th)). You should have my address, if not give me a buzz and I'll e-mail it to you.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 07:57am on 12/05/2004
Thank you very much!
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posted by [identity profile] frandowdsofa.livejournal.com at 10:35am on 12/05/2004
Ditto me, I'll get it to you somehow. Email me if you don't have our address.
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posted by [identity profile] blufive.livejournal.com at 11:04am on 12/05/2004
Count me in for a fiver, too. Nag me relentlessly on Saturday until I cough up :)
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posted by [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com at 12:10pm on 12/05/2004
tenner from me, and you must GiftAid it. I personally like justgiving.com -- although they take a cut, I can pay online with my credit card and they keep a note of my contributions so it makes the tax return easier.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 02:29pm on 12/05/2004
Way-hey! £128 reached! Thanks a lot.

If I had thought of this earlier, I would have done a justgiving.com thing, but this was all a bit last minute :-(
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posted by [identity profile] karmicnull.livejournal.com at 03:43pm on 12/05/2004
I'll go a fiver if you can wait until after 24th for payment...
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Goodluck

posted by [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com at 12:40am on 13/05/2004
I've donated already haven't I? At Plokta.con.

goodluck and you *might* see me on Sunday sometime as I ought to drop in on my IC friend north of Cambridge.

Feel free to say "Bugger off Alex - the party finished hours ago" if I arrive.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 04:02am on 13/05/2004
Yes, thanks. If I see you on Sunday I might say "Lovely to see you! Would you like some leftover sausages?"
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Not walking, but planting...

posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 07:30am on 17/05/2004
I've been doing a little light research on espalier fruit trees... I presume you'd prefer to buy them already trained? The 'season' for planting them appears to be November to March, but to get the varieties which you want, early ordering is required. Espaliers are best planted at 3m spacing, but small cordon espaliers can be at 1m or even less ...

As Rustat Road runs almost directly N-S, as you know (Bob), you have N & S-facing fences (low thermal mass), and E & W facing walls (high thermal mass). Peaches and apricots are best grown against south-ish facing walls, but you might be able to get away with one on the kitchen wall? Apples and pears are best on east/westish aligned walls, but a south-facing fence should do fine too. Morello cherries love north facing aspects.

I'm thinking of planting some espalier cordon nut trees in my garden, as we already have a standard pear tree. We've planted a rowan, too - cooked rowan berries make a good 'jelly' to accompany food, apparently. I'd love a wild service tree, but we don't have the space... the fruit of these are chequerberries of PM's The Chequers fame...
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