I have never written a blog before, so this is a new experience for me - a bit like riding a rickshaw to London, probably - something you don't know if you will like until you try it - but without the sore muscles.
Anyway: today is the 9th of October, and tomorrow morning, as the result of putting my mouth into gear before my brain, I will be setting off to pedal - very slowly - to London, in a Cycles Maximus rickshaw. I am delivering it to my niece Rachel and her husband Nelson, so that he can ride it to make a living.
In order to make sense of the above, I should add that my son Ben and I are running the London Marathon in 2009 for Oxfam, as we did in 2008, and this is a way of, hopefully, gaining lots of money for them. I aim to pick people up, for a donation, and also will be carrying my trusty Oxfam bucket into which passers by can hurl what life savings they have left after this week!
Tomorrow is also my 55th birthday, so that adds to the fun - a good way to celebrate. I am about to go out with my friends to give me something of an early birthday celebration/send off.
Tomorrow morning, at 10 o clock (on the tenth day of the tenth month) I head south to Lancaster.
If I make it there I will update this blog, with photos and a report. Wish me luck. Cate
PS I also have a justgiving page on www.justgiving.com/oxfam-rickshawride Well, as Sarah Palin would say "you gotcha try!"