Welcome to our second blog post and here we are on  2/1/24 taking a selfie in front of the Iconic Forth Bridge, opened in 1890 and still standing in 2024. I wonder if we will still be standing after having walked approximately 1200 miles in 3 months. It wasn't really the weather to be standing around in a T-Shirt, but the day before the "loony dookers" and for those who don't know, that is the term used for anyone bonkers enough to go for a dip in the River Forth on New Years Day near to where we are standing. 

Now I’m sure there will be quite a number of you reading this blog thinking, you two must be just as bonkers!!! We would agree so you are probably quite correct in your assessment. However, if doing something that seems a bit bonkers can raise a few £'s along the adventure then there is no doubt it will be well worth it. 

Cancer affects so many in so many different ways, nevertheless survival rates have doubled in the last 40 years. Consistent progress has and is being made in addition improvements to technology and ground-breaking work offer so much hope to many, many more people. This includes different ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer and improve survival rates. Cancer of course does not touch an individual in isolation it touches whole families. The challenge we are attempting to undertake will assist in the progress already made. Our hope and prayer is that many more will benefit from the work undertaken by those at Cancer Research UK.

We are very, very thankful that we have been blessed with good health to contemplate such a challenge. We are also very much aware that none of us know what a day will bring. There are some verses in the bible, in the Book of James chapter 4, that have been and are very much at the forefront of our thoughts as we have been planning this walk that remind us of this very fact: 

Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money. Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”

There is no doubt time seems to fly by, as one friend often remarks, “it’s frightening” how true that is. In just over 15 weeks we plan, God willing, to be heading off to Lands End to start this great adventure, in the mean time between now and then we will be out there getting the miles in to ensure we are in the best, Mike was going to say, “physical ” but that boat sailed years ago, so we’ll leave it as the best shape possible. 

More blogs to follow. We might even post a few photo’s of what we see when we are out and about.
Shona and Mike.


              

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