On Friday June 29th we are having a massive fundraising party at Richmond Canoe Club
We are planning cocktails, live music and lots of dancing. Tickets are £10 and include first drink and munchies.
Time: 8pm- 12pm
Contact Netty or Kim to get your tickets/ name on guest list!
Open to all feel free to bring friends!
On Saturday 23rd, yes this saturday, we are having our second fundraising BBQ in aid of our little adventure. Please come along to Kim’s House from 2pm for food and drink, after a small donation of course!
All proceeds as you know go towards our two charities and our funds for the trip
Just a quick thank you to everyone who has donated on our just giving sites, we have now raised £535 towards our charities. Both Hope and Homes for Children and Mercy Corps are really worthwhile charities, and your donations will go far I’m sure.
We have to raise £1000 for charity, it is one of the few rally rules, so if you have not yet sponsored us please do at:
Mercy Corps - www.justgiving.com/micragolia
Hope and Homes for Children - www.justgiving.com/micragolia2
The National Canoe and Kayak Flatwater Sprint Racing Championships - the National Watersports Centre, Nottingham. Fantastic sunshine, great racing conditions and lots of hungry athletes. No better place to sell cake. And cake we did sell.
Thanks to all those hungry munchers.. your contributions make a huge difference!
Bank holiday monday. May 28th. The coldest, wettest, and most definately windiest May 28th to ever be recorded (ref: reliable source.. Netties memory). But despite the grumpy looking grey clouds, we woke at 6am and crawled into the micra… and yes we did literally crawl into it.. who would have thought you could fit so many car boot sale items (otherwise known as junk) into such a small little car. The suspension struggled, so did the passengers, with a vacuum cleaner handle sticking into my shoulder, a curtain pole sticking into my back, a fold up table and gazeebo fighting for room with my head and a back street boys poster tangled round the feet… then we drove, armed with thick coats wooly hats and gloves we were all ready to do battle with the car boot sale. Had it not been cancelled. But we would not be defeated. We drove again. The second one was cancelled. We drove again, the third was cancelled. We drove again. The fourth one was cancelled. All because of a little bit of rain and ground flooding. Pathetic.
Feeling deflated we decided to head home, wondering how much we could sell on ebay, with strict orders from Kim’s dad that NONE of the items in the car were ever to be seen by him again. As we headed back in to twickenham we noticed what appeared to be fair setting up on the green.
A couple of cheeky request later, some very kind and generous organisers, we were all smiles again, our gazeebo was up our table out… we had our own stall at Twickenham Fair! Mercy Corps and Hope for homes posters flying (literally as the wind kept blowing everything away, including us and the gazeebo) we attracted many buyers to our amazing popular stall! Trevor and Francis kindly came to our aid, with spare wooly hats to fight off the cold and fresh enthusiasm for staffing our stall. We were a near sell out.. and even managed to sell the chairs we were sitting on!
Thank you so much to the organisers of Twickenham fair who completely turned our desolate day into a fantastically successful one. Pictures coming soon!
After making sure the BBQ wasn’t going to set fire to anything in the garden Kim and I shot off from our own fundraising event (how rude), nervously leaving the rugby fans drinking beer at my home! But it had to be done, after an epic Silver link/london tube/damn we’re at the wrong wapping station journey we arrived at the First meeting of the Mongol Ralliers - only 4 hours late, and 2 hours after we had left home!
We arrived mid question & answer session… and were immediately panicked by the number of knowledgable technical questions being asked - radio frequencies?? log books?? do we have one of those?? feeling some-what worried with no pre-prepared questions (except.. where is mongolia again? and are we really doing this??) we decided to turn to the bar man for help. He did magnificantly , with a small exchange of money we were had a corona in hand, and then another, and then another… and within a couple of hours we had built up a nice beer-fuelled confidence and seeming know-it all attititude which fooled people nicely.
By the end of the evening we went home merry, having met a bunch of new friends and become very very excited (but not any less scared) about starting our trip! Yeay 21st July.. bring it on!
Hi all. Apologies for not updating the website sooner, we have been working away at Mongol rally fundraising.. even if we don’t get round to admitting it on-line.
On the last bank holiday (26-28th May) we had a busy weekend of fundraising and Mongol Rally preparations. We kicked off with a successful rugby-watching-fundraising-bbq .. and the rain just about held off for us. Successful from the fundraising and fun point of view, not so on the rugby front. The numbers of Brits attending (7+1 England supporting Aussie) may have out wieghed the number of SA boys (5), but unfortunately there were no cries of swing low sweet chariot ringing through the air.. more happy Saffa shouting masking the quiet muffled sobs from the Brits hiding in the corner.
Despite the brits being upset at the score, and the Saffas complaining about the uselessness of not only british.. but british girls.. “braaing”, all it all it was an enjoyable afternoon (any way it wasn’t a Braai it was a BBQ and therefore the sausages are meant to be burnt… that’s how we always eat em in the Northern Hemisphere!)
We are holding another fundraising BBQ,on June 23rd, this time with out rugby.. hopefully with more sun.. and maybe games?? any suggestions welcome!