£666! 2000AD! Erm… 42!
I couldn’t make it up. As of right now, the donations received and pledged stand at £666 plus $445 plus 1000 Slovakian Crowns. In addition I’ve been informed that a missive I sent to Tharg the Mighty, editor of the Galaxy’s Greatest comic, 2000AD, has made Letter of the Week. I think one of the donations I received today is as a result of that, which is a great start. UPDATE: A nice person on the 2000AD mailing list scanned the letter in. You can see it here. The 42 is kind of spurious. I need to calculate how many miles I’ve done so far as it won’t be quite the total expected by now, though I hope to find it in excess of 200 miles. For safety reasons (horrendous roads, incoming bad weather), I accepted a lift over the Pass de Grand Saint Bernard between Italy and Switzerland all the way to Montreux. In a bid to increase the miles in compensation, I walked along the north shore of Lake Geneva / Lake Léman, crossed on a boat as I neared Geneva itself and walked some more on the south side. I’m fairly sure there’ll still be a shortfall, but I’ll calculate this and add some more miles elsewhere accordingly. I ain’t getting on that ferry in Holland until I have at least 993 miles under my belt! The videos from my camera seem to be kaput… I have rescued two very short none-walk-related ones and nothing else. The photos, in the main, seem to be OK but it will take me a while to go through and weed out the corrupt ones. Does anyone know of a utility for repairing partially corrupt AVI files?
August 19th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
Are we starting to cheat? Tut Tut… Lift here, lift there…
Mosh, as a punishment you should approach local newspapers or companies or anything on your way and asked them to donate money for the Blue Dragon
This country is reach, I am sure they will donate few bits and pieces.
August 19th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
No cheating. I just didn’t want to die… the roads, especially on the Swiss side, are very windy with blind corners and no barriers at all. The guy I got a lift from drove like a loon as well, and he wasn’t the only one. I sincerely doubt my ability to walk down that road without getting squished or knocked flying off the edge.
August 20th, 2007 at 7:27 am
Great news on the 200AD letter. How does it feel to now be intergalactically famous?
Dale
August 20th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Have you seen Finding Nemo?
Now think about the song Dory sings…
NOW think the words “just keep walking, just keep walking” to the tune of her song in time with your steps…
hey presto - brain worm to annoy the hell out of you as you persevere onwards!
no,no don’t thank me, imagining your happy smile is enough
xx JtyJ
August 20th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Dale - I think that makes three “letter of the week”s I’ve had in there! I’ll need to prod them for my prize (I don’t know what they’re dishing out these days) as they don’t have my mailing address…
JJ - I shall plod mercilessly on as far as Wales so I can throttle you… Almost as bad as Joe Pasquale’s “I’ve Got A Song That’ll Get On Your Nerves”
August 20th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Iain, there is more than 666GPB (italian keyboard sucks!).
You have not added my donation I’ve made for your sorry night under the pissing advert tabloid.
Tut, tut. Are you getting into a habbit?
August 20th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Yes I have - 8th August ‘07, Gosia Sikorska, $40, Received.
I’ve noticed a problem with the page, though. On this copy of IE it only goes as far down as the bottom of the left-hand columns, so everything after Brian Binley’s donation doesn’t appear. This didn’t happen with my Firefoy browser and I think it’s a problem with the stylesheets that I just can’t sort. Grr.
August 21st, 2007 at 12:25 pm
well, then count another £20 as pledged for the story with the bidet used as cure for your feet. You can collect it when you are back (unless I will find a secured PC access). this makes £686 and I hope it will be more soon.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Again, Gosia, thanks - I’ll pop it on the page as “pledged” for the moment
August 22nd, 2007 at 7:18 pm
That is just so… so… ZARJAZ!
August 22nd, 2007 at 7:24 pm
I have impressed Scaryduck. My life mission is now complete