COAST 2 COAST - DAY ONE

Day One: Monday 20th June - St Bees - on a beatiful day, the sun smiling in the sky. BTW Mr Bean (aka Rowan Atkinson) used to attend St Bees School! Had breakfast - thanks to Mr Sewell for sorting this out for us. I did my poetry thing and about 25 young people walked with us to the beach (us being me, Andy aka Poncho Sprockett and Keith aka Bomber Bennett). They waved us off in style and we set off...

After 14 miles we arrived in Ennerdale Bridge. A massive thanks to Dr Ayling for his fantastic hospitality. Bedtime, reading to wake up refreshed to do it all over again!!!

5000 Hits

Just looked at a film of me on You Tube and it has had over 5000 hits!!!! That is fantastic. Big thank you to everyone who has looked at it -its me on the library bus up in Sunderland - and a extra big thanks to TONY WILSON for making the film in the first place. TA muchly!!!!

Games Gone By

Just finished the last of my 4 sessions with a group of nutters, oops, lovely young people at St Johns and St Marks Primary in Bury. I have been going in there and getting them into writing about the olden days and the stuff that people used to do for fun. The teacher was called Miss Brokenbrow, which is the name of the week for me!!! She used to be a ballet dancer and showed us some moves!!! You go girl!!I am actually writing this blog wearing my tutu, tights and little shoes!!! We had a laugh and wrote some new poems and bits and bobs. Big thanks to everybody there, hello to Jake the snake!! and to Baha, Imman the crazy cricket kid, Alia the super assistant, Zeynab from Spec savers, Zeynab the neat writer, Sean O, Amir, Sophie, Hannah, James and the Moon boy!! and to everyone else not forgetting Mrs Iqbal and Mrs C Shaw!!! You lot ROCK!!!

The Future Is Here Now!!!!!!!!!

Its countdown time!! Here's the thing.... about 6 months ago i thought it would be a supadupa mini cooper, idea to take two weeks off and walk 200 miles across England from the irish Sea to the North Sea. Yes i said to myself, that's a grand thing to do, a great thing, i know I'll do it in June sometime, its miles away!!! Well..., its June now. Holy Moly!!!That's the thing with making future plans, time ticks away and before you know it WOW its here!!!

THE FUTURE IS HERE NOW!!!

I am going with two other blokes. One is Andy aka Sprocket, who is an old mate and in charge of bells, flags, whistles and faders. And the other is Bomber Bennett, an ex soldier, (left right left right left right) who is charge of route, maps and provisions. I have been getting all my gear together - blister plasters, boots, rucksack, tent, maps, trombone etc and the other stuff. I am performing in schools along the route, 9 schools have said OK so all in all ins going to be a bit mad. I will be blogging my way across and writing about the walk.
keeping fingers crossed for decent weather!!!!

Yeah man!! bring it on!!!!

Training

I am walking 200 miles across England in a couple of weeks , on the famous Coast To Coast path. I thought i'd better get some training in so i have off walking for a couple of days. First i wnet upto Blencathra, a big hill in the lake district. I wanted to walk over a place called Sharp Edge but the wind was so strong and the fog was thick so i gave it a miss. Had a great walk though, Blencathra is a fantastic place go and get away from the world!!! On the second day i wnet on one of my favourite walks from Ilkey to Bolton Abbey and back. Its about 12 miles and it was awesome. The sun was shining and the scenery was amazing. I went with Captain Andrew Amos, an old mate of mine who is coming on the Coast To Coast. Got a couple of blisters but all worth it!!