Well what a freezing cold night Friday was. Between 5 and 8 Sarah and I stood outside Country Wise shaking our collecting tins and giving away balloons. We haven't counted our pennies yet as we are going to be back on Friday 17th to do it all over again. That is if the weather is kind - having just checked on the Met Office website it looks as though we could be in for 10 - 20cm of snow, from Thursday onwards.
Things are coming together now for the Christmas Fair. I will be out and about this week putting up posters advertising it. If you would like one of our posters just send me an email and I will either send you a pdf version or print send out and send them to you.
We have a full quota of stalls now. A big thank you to everyone for their support and I am sorry to those whom we don't have room for. I will keep your details and let you know about our Valentines event at The Metropole next February.
My Training Programme has pretty much ground to a halt. Several reasons for this include working 24/7 (I run my own business with my husband, who has been in America on and off for the last 2 months), persistent stomach problems, charity work overload to raise the funds, a car accident (I would particularly like to thank the driver who pulled out in front of me, forced me off the road thus crashing my car and then driving off without stopping, thankfully apart from some damage to my car I was OK, pretty shaken up but all fine in the end), and now this week I have managed to catch my daughters cold.
I am hoping to get out nearer the end of the week. I am trying to focus on completing a 10km run by the end of the year, and with everything that is going on I think that this is probably achievable. I am walking the dogs daily, as well as running around like a lunatic so my fitness is still pretty good. I am also hoping to meet up with Petra again in the next week to give me a bit of her usual inspiration and "get up and go."
I met up with author Anne Watts and her sister Joan last week. Anne has kindly agreed to open the Christmas Fair for me - she has been a huge amount of support over the last month or so.
My mum is selling mulled wine on the run up to Christmas at her place of work, non alcoholic I think but you never know - her sherry trifle is pretty lethal.
We had more names for the Yeti on Friday evening and also I have been receiving lots of Personal Challenge entries for inspirational Stories Competition. Please keep them coming in - I won't publish them unless you give me your permission, but will be publishing a selection that are happy for me to do so.
And that is about it. I will be wrapping presents for the lucky dip, making mince pies, organising a Table Plan, publicising the Fair, collecting in Wadebridge on Friday evening and maybe, just maybe, organising a family Christmas.
Take care everyone and I will be back with more news very soon.
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