One Sleep to Go..................

Well it has been a while since I managed to write my last entry.


Such a lot has happened.

I have moved house three times, which was an upheaval. From Wandsworth to Croydon where I stayed for 3 months. Then out of the blue a found a new job in Hove. So I did an interim move back to Bognor for a few weeks and then found a place to stay very close to my new job as Marketing Manager for a Hotel. I haven’t been sure if I was coming or going and often got confused where I lived and where I worked! Never a good thing when you find yourself on a train to Bognor when you were meant to be going to Brighton!

In Croydon I had this brilliant (!!!) idea of investing in a Personal Trainer! So for three months I made friends with a few muscles I never knew I had, it’s always good to find out about these things! After moving this new get fit and train hard Victoria got left behind in Croydon. I miss her but not as much as I will on Friday when I start my first days walking. So I leave tomorrow and to be honest I am not even sure I will manage it.

I have had some emails from some of the ladies on the trip, a lovely lady emailed me and said how she has done lots of hill walking and how she now has great stamina. So there will be me, the size 8, 24 year old at the bottom of the mountain and all these older (sorry) ladies steaming on a head of me! Now that could be an embarrassing sight!

I actually went to Millets last weekend to buy a last minute bag (no my kitchen sink wouldn’t fit in my original bag!) and I walked up the flight of stairs got half way and turned round to my mother and said my legs kill……..I think it was that moment I started to panic!

I have heard some horrid stories the last few weeks. I think this is my Halloween! Someone who I did a few walks with (back in the summer!!!) has just come back form his Nepal trek. He said that the toilet situation was just the worse thing to deal with. I still can’t get this image of me walking into the bushes and doing my stuff. Apparently sometimes there isn’t even bushes – and you know what they say! When you gotta go you gotta go!!! I was also told over dinner at a Networking event that I should get someone to check my cavities for leaches! This being the case I have decided to pack a few of my nephew’s nappies – just for good measure.

It is unbelievable that a whole year has passed since that crazy day when I signed up for this expedition. Such a lot has happened to me in the last twelve months. There have been moments when I wondered why I decided to do this. But then one day recently I was contacted by someone I did not know who told me that all would be well and that I could do this and that all the little angels up in heaven would be watching me and helping me along the way. This wonderful lady had just lost her own very precious daughter in Demelza House. I just have to keep in it in my mind on the tough days this is what I am doing it for.

Send me all your good luck vibes……….only one more sleep!