Help Molly to walk

A charity was picked for our three peaks challenge next month and as you can probably guess from the title of this post it’s to help a little girl known as Molly.

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Molly has cerebral palsy, which causes the muscles in her legs to become tight and very painful. At the moment Molly is using a walker or a wheelchair to get around, but she has one single wish – to be able to walk without pain.

There is an operation available for Molly in the USA that will fulfill Molly’s wish, but she needs your help. The operation, travel and after care is quite expensive and costs around £60,000. You can help Molly’s dream become a reality. You can support her by donating to her just giving page.

https://www.justgiving.com/Mollys-wish-to-walk/

Thank you for taking the time to read this and decide to donate to help Molly’s wish become a reality. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Three Peak Challenge

On July 4th I will have the opportunity to take part in the three peak challenge with some friends from work. It has been in the planning stage for a while, so I didn’t really want to post about it until it’s all confirmed.

This is a huge opportunity for me to tick a couple of things off of my bucket list. I get to travel to Scotland, and I get to climb a mountain – three in fact!

The total round trip will be approximately 1360 miles, and we are doing it in my car!

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We will use our place of work as the base for everyone meeting up, and from there we will continue forward on our journey up to Scotland. We have found an amazing location to stay and prepare ourselves for the first climb in Scotland.

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I am really excited and pumped to be doing this challenge. It will be a real test of stamina and perseverance not only for me but the others in the group as well. The best thing is we are doing this to help raise some money for charity (one has yet to be picked), so if you would like to help then a page will be set up so you can donate if you wish to.

Throughout the entire journey I will be documenting it, but have yet to choose the method so others can view everything we are doing. At the end when we finally reach home I will collate everything and put it up on here for all to see.

Have you ever done the three peaks challenge? How did you find it? Is it something you would like to do again? Did you manage to complete all three peaks in under the 24 hours? If you didn’t what held you up?

Waste

I’ve never understood why in the commercial world there aren’t proper considerations for the enormous amount of waste packaging.

I bought some food today where the packaging was exceptionally large for what was inside, and this isn’t the first time I have come across this when buying something either online or from the shops.

Take the below bit of meat as an example.

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All of that meat fit into roughly one-third the size of the original packaging. I understand that no one wants to see all their meat bunched up as it’s not “aesthetically pleasing”, but should that matter in the modern-day world? It shouldn’t, but evidently it does.

Amazon is a huge culprit of oversized packaging. Take this chap who posted a photo on Reddit of his recent purchase of batteries (yes you read that right – batteries) from amazon.

bIPf0umThis happened to me when I ordered something from Amazon a couple of years back. It’s all good and well getting a customers product to them in a safe condition, but at some point the company have to realise what they’re doing is causing huge amounts of waste even if it is recyclable. Does it really need that much packaging?

What are your thoughts on the subject? How many everyday objects do you buy that are covered in excessive packaging? Do you think its acceptable?

 

The bucket list – Is there any point?

Is there any point in a bucket list these days? Of course there is! We’re not all immortal gods and have unlimited wealth, so some of us mere mortals have to plan for the future and do things to make us feel good before we die.

I have compiled my bucket list below in no particular order. For now there shall only be a few things, but over time the list shall grow and accomplishments shall be ticked off. I hope to do all of them before I die.

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  1. Reach the peak of a mountain – Mount Snowdon – 05/07/2015
  2. Go sky diving
  3. Fly in an aeroplane – I flew to Switzerland on the 11/11/2015 – Take offLanding
  4. Fly in a helicopter
  5. Travel to Scotland – Attempted the National Three Peak Challenge – 02/07/2015
  6. Travel to Italy
  7. Visit the Colosseum
  8. Visit the Leaning Tower of Pisa
  9. Visit Vatican City
  10. Travel to France
  11. Travel to Iceland
  12. Visit the Blue Lagoon
  13. Travel to Switzerland – I travelled to Geneva to visit C.E.R.N. 11/11/2015
  14. Visit C.E.R.N. – I visited C.E.R.N. on 11/11/2015
  15. Travel to The Netherlands
  16. Get stoned legally
  17. Travel to Norway
  18. Get my motorcycle licence – Passed my tests on 29/07/2022
  19. Own a motorcycle – Bought Lucy on 14/07/2022 – She arrived 19/12/2022
  20. Drive a super car
  21. Own a house – Bought a 2 bed flat in July 2017
  22. Walk my daughter down the aisle
  23. Hold my grandchild
  24. See the human race reach Mars
  25. Go to Disney World / Land
  26. Weigh 90 Kg or less
  27. Quit smoking – I quit smoking March 2020 – I quit vaping November 2022
  28. Learn an instrument
  29. Go scuba diving
  30. See the Great Pyramids in Egypt
  31. Do something for charity – Raised £500 for Charity for the National Three Peak Challenge – 02/07/2015
  32. Visit the Eiffel Tower
  33. Visit the Louvre
  34. Travel to the USA
  35. Visit the Smithsonian
  36. Visit the Lincoln Memorial
  37. Visit the Statue of Liberty
  38. Visit and or tour the White House
  39. Celebrate New Year in Time Square
  40. Own a real meteorite
  41. See an active volcano in person
  42. Witness the aurora borealis
  43. Witness the aurora australis
  44. Go water rafting
  45. Eat sushi– Took my Mum for lunch on 28th September 2016
  46. Try LSD
  47. Go to a concert at the O2
  48. Travel to Peru
  49. Visit Machu Picchu
  50. Hike the Valley of the Incas
  51. Travel to Australia
  52. Visit the Great Barrier Reef
  53. Swim with turtles
  54. See an orchestral performance in the Sydney Opera House
  55. Live near my children so I can see them daily
  56. Go to Alton Towers – I went there for the weekend with Ryan – 25/03/2016
  57. Own my car outright – Paid the final payment on 10th September 2015
  58. Go bungee jumping
  59. Get tattoo sleeves
  60. Go on a ride in a hot air balloon
  61. Learn to use chopsticks
  62. Eat an entire meal with chopsticks
  63. Complete a food challenge – Completed the 32oz Steak Challenge at Flaming Grill – 08/02/2016
  64. Get my tongue pierced again – 14th May 2022 – 4th time!
  65. Summit Ben Nevis
  66. Summit Scafell Pike – Summited Scafell Pike 4th June 2021 with my sister, Christina
  67. Learn how to dance the Tango
  68. Tour the ancient ruins in Greece
  69. Go Zorbing
  70. Take my son camping in the Highlands
  71. Blow glass
  72. Work on a pottery wheel
  73. Read a whole novel
  74. Visit Madame Tussauds
  75. See Swan Lake
  76. Visit a castle
  77. Sleep in a castle
  78. Write a recipe book
  79. Learn the alphabet in sign language
  80. Go rock climbing
  81. Take an archery lesson

Last updated 19/01/2023

Top Gear – My thoughts

You should all know what’s been happening with Top Gear by now, and if you don’t then you’ve been living under a rock! It’s been all over the news, in the papers, and all over social media!

As the main incident has now been dealt with by the BBC (the “firing” of Jeremy Clarkson) I thought I would give my two pennies on the whole situation.

I would have to agree with the decision of the BBC to “sack” Jeremy over what he did. It wasn’t professional and nor was it the right thing to do, and it was over something so stupid, however in saying this it is a sad thing that he will no longer be part of Top Gear.

Fortunately there are rumours floating around stating that all three of the boys (Clarkson, May and Hammond) will have another show not on the BBC but on Sky 1 under the name Top Speed. How true this rumour is for sure I can’t say, but if the rumour does come to fruition I will be most happy that the show is not going to die with the BBC, as I’m sure many of its fans will also be.

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Image credit: bbc.co.uk

What are your thoughts on the subject? Do you think it should of been handled differently? Leave a comment below with your thoughts.

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For now though you can enjoy a lovely photo of when I went to the Eden Project.

The Eden Project