Morning Everyone.

Well the big news is that after a month or two of decision making it is now felt that the expedition would benefit greatly from changing sponsorship direction very slightly.  Up until now I have been raising my funds for Sports Relief.  However, we have been through a little bit of soul searching and realised our endeavour could be positioned better with the fantastic Lords Taveners.  This great charity was set up by like-minded individuals in 1950 with a love of cricket and communal pro-activity that gave itself to urgent fundraising aiming a creating a better life for children; particularly those with special needs.  Today the ranks of the Taveners are full of celebrities, musicians, cricket stars and people who feel that they could make a difference.  The unanimous feeling was that so could we.  They have been interested in our endeavours right from the start and have offered support and assistance throughout and the overriding feeling when we met at Lords a few weeks ago was that our impact would create bigger waves if we drew up alongside The Taveners; and now it's official.  www.lordstaveners.org for further information and the bigger story.

It goes without saying that Sport Relief is still of course a wonderful and amazing charity and massive "thank yous" to those friends and supporters of mine that have kindly donated to the cause so far.  Your money will go towards ground-breaking projects set up by Sport Relief and that have huge impact, both in the UK and overseas; so really a huge Thankyou.  However, any further funds raised will now go towards the Lords Taveners and I will be changing my donation pages shortly.

The Christmas season has sneaked up on us again.  I just wish corporate Britain let the world know a little sooner.  I watch the TV, listen to the radio and I didn't even realise Christmas was coming so soon.  No adverts, no Live Aid, no Slade, nothing.  Come on Britain, lets get the decorations out earlier than August next year, please.  Obviously, training will continue although this week I have given myself a bit of slack and I would imagine next week will be the same but it will continue in earnest.  A very Merry Christmas to all my fellow lunatics and anyone that may have stumbled across this blog looking for late night "exercise" websites and all the best for 2009.  Our next serious get together will be a Tenzing Weekend at Kinsey's farm in Herefordshire; building him a brand new shed, building his village a new church, asphalting his Helipad, scrumping his apples, digging him a new swimming pool and going for a run. April's coming everyone and our adventures will be going up several notches.