Well, today I counted up my donations and banked just over £600 - so I am very happy. I know there is more to come (promised, at any rate) so good news and well worth the pedalling.
As I pedalled I had plenty of time to think, and so here are some observations:
The people we met on this trip showed such kindness and generosity, to two strangers - one on a rickshaw and the other in a camper, with a mad collie!David the vicar letting us camp behind his church for example - and making us an excellent cup of tea (and even giving Frank his "Sod's Law" beaker to keep!) And all the people who waited for me to pedal into view so that they could fill my bucket. In these days, when there is so much to make us mistrustful of strangers, it was lovely to be met with such openess.
more frivolously:
The most poplular car in the Uk has got to be a Golf
The drivers of the most expensive cars were the least likely to stop and donate
The noisiest cars almost always turned out to be old Corsas with big exhausts and big stereos - and young lads driving them
Kidderminster has the smoothest roads
Cheshire has the roughest
Lancashire people are the most generous, closely followed by Oxfordshire
Oxford freshers have dreadful headaches the day after matriculation
Richmond Hill is big
If you ask a stranger the way they turn out to be Bulgarian, or Polish
Marks and Spencer's carrot cake is delicious
long distance rickshaw riding is wonderful fun - but bl**dy hard work!
enough...........bye! x
