Charity


And on Saturdays I hallucinate


Croc, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.

This is but one of the strangely dressed creatures I met on Saturday whilst helping out with a breast cancer campaign collection. The ginger bearded Britney was the scariest and the young lady with the whiskers the sweetest. There are more pictures in the set.


I’m at the Rag cider fest


I’m at the Rag cider fest, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.

And not drinking because I’m on my bike. But I am providing signage as usual.


Charidee- Team Ike’s Bogle plans and send Sue to Zambia

This year’s Bogle Stroll is March 6th-7th. Alex and I are entering, probably as Team Ike with baby Bogle Ikes fastened to our bikes. (That sentence will probably only make sense to ten people.) If the weather’s favourable and I can get the training in I’m aiming for four loops of the roll route, about 104 miles, because I’ve managed three loops each of the times I’ve tried previously. The bike is better this year, but sadly the body isn’t. I haven’t found a way to take donations online yet, but if you want to sponsor either of us please email or comment and tell me how much.

If you do want to make a donation online, go to Sue’s page and help her go to Zambia this Summer. If she can raise enough they’ll send her back to us rather than making her hitch home.


Shaken not stirred


Shaken not stirred, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.

Ike and I are enjoying martinis mixed by mr Johnson, on the Mound. See you in the new year.


Ike rides the dragon


Ike rides the dragon, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.

Dundee likes its statues. I realised last night that I’m Ike’s mascot and he just takes me on all his adventures because he feels sorry for me.


We’ve been playing with fire!

And it has been good. Many hundreds of people with flaming torches.


Ike has made a furry friend


Ike has made a furry friend, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.

Sue’s hat scared the children, so she had to take it off while collecting.


The Ed mobile


The Ed mobile, originally uploaded by spinneyhead.

I found this picture, but no sign of the faculty of arty-farty subjects ones yet.

The Ed mobile. This was a support vehicle on teh 1993 or 1994 Bogle Stroll, I’m not sure which. The silhouette in the driver’s seat is almost certainly Peter Larkham and the guy in the middle seat will be John Bilham. I haven’t a clue who the bloke in the yellow jacket is, but the person walking toward the van is Richard Ambler, Bogle warlord that year or the one previous.