The Target is Coming Ever Closer!

Am a bit tight for time at the moment but wanted to let chas know that after the success of the ‘ladies only’ party – I think you know what I mean by that, albeit vague title - £358.00 worth of success at the end of the evening – we have started thinking about other parties that we could have and we have planned a candle party on March the 6th and a Make Up party on the 20th but I am concerned that we will always be asking the same people for cash and that does worry me a bit! What I think I will do is not charge the people who always donate but ask them to bring a friend! Cor – when it comes to making money, Alan Sugar’s got nothing on me has he?!

Otherwise, training is hard in this weather and harder still when there are so many other demands on your time – but I am hopeful to get a good burn in this weekend – I will say this, I don’t know whether I am weather beaten or what but I certainly seem to have a lot more colour in my (face) cheeks!

Will let yas know how that and anything else that comes up over the next few weeks go in the next instalment! So, until then; take great care and don't forget our fundraising page www.justgiving.com/joandpenni although we are getting there - would be good if we got more than we initially said wouldn't it?!
Loadsa love, Jx

Snow joke you know!

Fair play – what did I do in a previous life to make things soo hard now? I must have been one bad bunny! Snow is falling, so am I – (falling out of good habits that is!) and we are off in less than 6 months! I really am starting to think that we must have been on some kind of hippy trip to ever think this was a good idea! We are neither of us the ‘sporty’ type and personally, I am just bone bloody idle! Still, the lighter evenings are certainly on their way and I know as soon as they arrive properly training will be a lot easier and I will be a lot better – it just seems that everything is against me at the moment! The weather is pants, my sister (and cycling buddy) has moved halfway up the country and although, as I mentioned in my last entry that David has bought a bike so that he can come training with me at least when I go training with Penni we don’t have to flip a coin for who has the shower first!

I know I shouldn’t grump – especially as our online donations page www.justgiving.com/joandpenni is up to £1,865! A HUGE thank you to everyone who has sponsored us – as we are certainly getting there!

Otherwise what’s new? Well, we have a ‘ladies only’ party (you know what I mean by that I am sure!) arranged for tomorrow (13/02/09) but things aren’t going so well for that and I am really starting to a) take things personally and b) think that I should have taken the ticket money up front! The plan is that an old friend will run the party, the ‘guests’ will all pay £5 to come, David will make a curry and then go out with some mates and we will raise a few quid towards the bike ride, and although a fair few folks have dropped out we should still be able to raise the best part of £100 so that’s a tone we wouldn’t have had! (Not including the extra £25 that aunty Pat put on the JustGiving page because she can’t make it – fair play, you are a diamond bird AP!) We also have a make-up party booked for the 20th of March and are planning a jewellery party in April. The Twmpath doesn’t look like it will happen after all which is a shame, but we can’t find anywhere big enough that will let us use a function room for nothing – and in the current economic climate it’s probably not surprising!

Other than that, there is not a lot to report –

So, until the next time; take great care and don't forget our fundraising page www.justgiving.com/joandpenni
Loadsa love, Jx