oh my gosh it day 998 :) :)
xxx
Tuesday 8 June 2010
Monday 7 June 2010
well hello :)
- its mad to think that this the half way point was 300 miles ago!!!!hello all,
wow so what a couple of weeks we hav had, its hard to believe that we are on day 97...yep thats right day 97, its totally incredible!
We ahve seen and experienced so much, from the concrete jungles like Plymouth, to the ruged and untouched delights, like Lanacombe beach. Peopl eof all genrerations, all sizes, whether smiling or frowning hav walked past alongside and behind us. I have sat in the most amazing area of outstanding beauty, had car parks all to myself, sqeezed into over crowed and crampt multi stories, and just sat in silence on a verge, the mulitude of greens, with suble pink, yellow and white seemingly sprouting randomly, electirc cables criss cross there way around the countryside, whether devon, or somerset, there still there in all there glory, an unsightly but needed eye sore, although not seeing them is as much a puzzlement, and you spend som much time wondering why there isnt any you tend not to notice what an amazing thing ur seeing, they arent as bad,you dont tend to see them after a while, the trick is to pack to the side of them then your view is interupted :).
I thought that on this trip i would get to know more about plants....what a silly this to think, i see them more, but thats about it, i eiether cant get out safely to get a better look, or i dont have time, but thats ok i dont mind, we have beautiful flowers back home so i will enjoy them when i get back lol, one thing that i have loved and enjoyed gazing at is the sky, the clouds and transforming, building and menasing formations building above me. Its fun to just sit and enjoy mother nature at her best :).
We hav had more than a couple of interesting days, when i say interesting i mean.......hard, annoying and maybe even disappointing, most of these hav been moiving days. Coming across campsites that have been booked but are not in any way accessible, is soul distroying, do u think that the campsite owners how hard it is, to turn up somewhere and hav to leave because they havnt been honest, 'hard; isnt the right word, i think that i feel too guilty, there is nothing that we could have done, if these campsites feel it is nessarcery to LIE about their access then i shouldnt feel guilty, but all you who know me well will know that i do feel guilty i feel very guilty, i am the one that cant use the facilities, and im the one walking. I can kind of understand that these sites would say that they are accissible, if they dont know, or hav never been on a wheelchair, or had a disabilitie, then how would they know! I can understand that if they have a room especially for adapted, thats great but they need to think about the lead up to that room, the type of sirface they have on the roads, that kind of thing. IU dont know that answer but i kow alot of people who would go camong but this problem is stopping them......and thats not fair!!!
Anyway im so a great wafferler, mummy and Colin are walking from Kidderminster to St Albans head, they are a little behind so thats why i have time to go on and on about not a lot!
We had a hard day yesturday, my wheelchair broke, the wheel wouldnt stay in (still wont!), then on the way to Weymouth to borrow a chair, we picked up a large nail int he rear tyre!! had to get to new tyres at the back, heading back to weynouth today to take the chair back, it much better for me to use a chair with a wheel falling out, than the chair i was lent, i am very greatful, but its really a chair to be pushed in, and thats not great!!
I so excited to be coming home, we will be back some time on Monday, going to have to take it steady cos Gertie looses first and reverse gear when she is hot!! Colin (my uncle, mums brother) is with us til the end, which is fab :), going to wave them over the finish line, with balloons, hooters and well as much as i can do single handed...(dont tell them its a surprise hehehe).
Im so proud of my mum, i think she could be one of the most incredible women ever, a good friend of ours, once said that its not the fall that kills you its the sudden stop at the bottem, mummy and i were contemplating this statement, and wondering if it is true in this sense, its not the walking that stops you, its the sudden stop at the end!!!! well we shall see.
Could someone do me a favour please, the grass int the garden at mums could do with mowing, if anyone could do it before we get back, i would really apprechiate it.
Well better go, im sure there is something i should be doing lol lol.
Love to you all and see you very soon
Take care
Charlie, Mac and Treacle
p.s. if anyone wants to join us for the last couple of days please do, i think that it would mean i lot to mummy, we are getting to South Haven Point (the end) on wednesday, then will b up Combe Martin way for the last two days that we had to skip at the beginning. you got our numbers if you want to join us :) :), see you all very soon xxxxxxxxxxxx
Monday 24 May 2010
Thursday 20 May 2010
Brixham
Well good afternoon, I'm sitting at Brixham harbour, lookin out at the sea and the
wonderful boats, the whole set up and the way the place is run and organised is wonderful,
They r really looking after the fishermen as well as the people that won't to come and
enjoy. A lot of places could learna a lot from here, holyhead for example!!
Its another warmish day, hot but overcast, not good witha head like mine, mind u I love it
whn the sun isn't too strong I am very light sensitive, so when I'm in direct sun light
its not nice, which is y more often than not, I will wearing a hat and sitting in the shade or the car!!
Mac, treacle and milo r all well, loving the change of scenary, and enjoying the play on beaches and feilds :),
its not so much fun When they can't runa bout at the campsites, but thewy find away to amuse themselves, mac had taken to tidying! Well he thinks he is, I will put thing where I won't it in the care, and he will move it to somewherew alse and replace it with another thing, its very fun to watch.
Right I had better go and find lunch, not sure what we r having today, but I will find something I'm sure :)
Take care all
Xx
wonderful boats, the whole set up and the way the place is run and organised is wonderful,
They r really looking after the fishermen as well as the people that won't to come and
enjoy. A lot of places could learna a lot from here, holyhead for example!!
Its another warmish day, hot but overcast, not good witha head like mine, mind u I love it
whn the sun isn't too strong I am very light sensitive, so when I'm in direct sun light
its not nice, which is y more often than not, I will wearing a hat and sitting in the shade or the car!!
Mac, treacle and milo r all well, loving the change of scenary, and enjoying the play on beaches and feilds :),
its not so much fun When they can't runa bout at the campsites, but thewy find away to amuse themselves, mac had taken to tidying! Well he thinks he is, I will put thing where I won't it in the care, and he will move it to somewherew alse and replace it with another thing, its very fun to watch.
Right I had better go and find lunch, not sure what we r having today, but I will find something I'm sure :)
Take care all
Xx
Wednesday 19 May 2010
fish, boats, oil and coliflower
Hi all, its been a manic but good couple of days :), mummy is still ploddig on, determined that her knee will not slow her down. Though it is obvilous to me how bad it is,
We have been at a good campsite lovely people, which is wonderful.
Been looking at some of the harbous round here, wow there really some wonderful fishing boats down here, with proper fishermen, I'm not sure
What a proper fishman looks like but I'm sure that I have a few, and I rekon they live of fish lol.
Gertie isn't doing to well, we r nursing her along, she has decided that reverse is horrid and won't use it unless she has been. Sitting quietly for a while! She is bleeding too, a lot, but we will keep going she an important paqrt of this trip :)
I was wheeling round the supermrket the otherday wondering what I was going to cook for mummy, I thought veg would b nice, sitting in front of me was a massive pile of white and green, coliflower siTting looking at the them, I just couldn't work out how to make them taste nice, so opted for cougettes instead lol.
See ya all soon, there plenty of room ingertie is any one feels like joining us, this is the kind of time ur more than welcome and to be honest needed.
Take care
Xxx
We have been at a good campsite lovely people, which is wonderful.
Been looking at some of the harbous round here, wow there really some wonderful fishing boats down here, with proper fishermen, I'm not sure
What a proper fishman looks like but I'm sure that I have a few, and I rekon they live of fish lol.
Gertie isn't doing to well, we r nursing her along, she has decided that reverse is horrid and won't use it unless she has been. Sitting quietly for a while! She is bleeding too, a lot, but we will keep going she an important paqrt of this trip :)
I was wheeling round the supermrket the otherday wondering what I was going to cook for mummy, I thought veg would b nice, sitting in front of me was a massive pile of white and green, coliflower siTting looking at the them, I just couldn't work out how to make them taste nice, so opted for cougettes instead lol.
See ya all soon, there plenty of room ingertie is any one feels like joining us, this is the kind of time ur more than welcome and to be honest needed.
Take care
Xxx
Tuesday 11 May 2010
absense and catch up
good morning good people, i havent written my blog in a little while and im sorry for that.
I lot has happened since i last wrote, ad then agin a lot hasnt! we had a lvoely visit form my uncle, that was great cos it also meant that there was an extra persomn for my birthday.
We have seen some amazing sights, some incredible places, lots of walkers, cyclists and dogs.
We are 2/3 of the way into the walk now, which is incredible, and you know one of the hardest things of all........finding accessible campsites that say they are, almst every four days we are having to search the area for somewhere to stay, its a waste of petrol and energy. Surely someone checks these sites when they say they are accessible, or maybe they have a manual to go on, what ever is happening its not working at all. i dont want to moan about them but they really do leave me with no choice!!
when we were on the lizard, a few weeks back now, i drove into Helston to try and find a shop to get us some lunch, i was being pestered byu a car that had let me cross, a lady wanting to stand where i was going...you know the sort of thing....so i didnt see the massive ditch that was sitting all the way down the high street next the curb, so in gertie went with a bang, luckily for me though i have four wheel drive so i still had three wheels to get me out of the situation!!! you can imagine what i was saying and thinking at the time! It was helped by some ladies (i use the word lightly) starring making comments on the situation. As you can imagine i left pretty quickly!!
Nothing else like this has happened, which gerie is very happy about!! gertie and have been seen driving backwards and forwards up streets turning in loittle spaces and peering through crevaces....and the reason fo this besides nosiness is the search for a disabled loo, in these small cornish and devonian villages if there is a disabled loo, then its oftern in the most strange of places, there for the search must begin!!
there has been a major development, for those that know me well you will know that i DO NOT eat breakfast, well i have news, i know eat breakfast, and with orange juice no less!! This is big for me so i htought i should share it with my devoted followers!
So let me bring you up to date, we have done Penwith, Lizard, remote unknown villages, harbours that fit a single boat, beaches suitbale for royalty, campsites that should be burnt tp the ground and others that should be given an extra star. We have seen birds of all description, fish freshly caught and still swimming, seals lazing on the beach, people walking, people talking, people smiling and laughing, people doing silly things, dogs, dogs barking, dogs eatting, dogs playing, fishing boats, big boats and little boats, dingys, jet skis and ferrys. We have seen the police on foot, on bike, in the car and on sea. Fishermen in the pub, eatting a pasty and working on there colourful boats, harbours with hundreds of little boats, harbours with big expensive boats, and massive Navy boats filling harbours. We have passed navy, marine and RAF, watched helicopters, gazed at marines, and loved big navy warships. We have seen things people shouldnt see, we have laughed at things that shouldn;t be laughed at, we have cried when it hurt and giggle when it felt good, the smell of baking fills the villages, pastys and bread, fish and chips winging there way out tighly clasped in the hands, bringing with them the hunger making smell, fresh fish coming in on the boats filling the air with a fresh scent and smell the most amazing smell, the sea,the seaweed crashing against the roacks, the sand and the walls. We have done nearly 450 miles of the most amazing, differing coastline in the world. but we still have a way to go, more of the same and a lot of new and amazing sights smells and thoughts.
Untill the next have a good one
charlie
xx
I lot has happened since i last wrote, ad then agin a lot hasnt! we had a lvoely visit form my uncle, that was great cos it also meant that there was an extra persomn for my birthday.
We have seen some amazing sights, some incredible places, lots of walkers, cyclists and dogs.
We are 2/3 of the way into the walk now, which is incredible, and you know one of the hardest things of all........finding accessible campsites that say they are, almst every four days we are having to search the area for somewhere to stay, its a waste of petrol and energy. Surely someone checks these sites when they say they are accessible, or maybe they have a manual to go on, what ever is happening its not working at all. i dont want to moan about them but they really do leave me with no choice!!
when we were on the lizard, a few weeks back now, i drove into Helston to try and find a shop to get us some lunch, i was being pestered byu a car that had let me cross, a lady wanting to stand where i was going...you know the sort of thing....so i didnt see the massive ditch that was sitting all the way down the high street next the curb, so in gertie went with a bang, luckily for me though i have four wheel drive so i still had three wheels to get me out of the situation!!! you can imagine what i was saying and thinking at the time! It was helped by some ladies (i use the word lightly) starring making comments on the situation. As you can imagine i left pretty quickly!!
Nothing else like this has happened, which gerie is very happy about!! gertie and have been seen driving backwards and forwards up streets turning in loittle spaces and peering through crevaces....and the reason fo this besides nosiness is the search for a disabled loo, in these small cornish and devonian villages if there is a disabled loo, then its oftern in the most strange of places, there for the search must begin!!
there has been a major development, for those that know me well you will know that i DO NOT eat breakfast, well i have news, i know eat breakfast, and with orange juice no less!! This is big for me so i htought i should share it with my devoted followers!
So let me bring you up to date, we have done Penwith, Lizard, remote unknown villages, harbours that fit a single boat, beaches suitbale for royalty, campsites that should be burnt tp the ground and others that should be given an extra star. We have seen birds of all description, fish freshly caught and still swimming, seals lazing on the beach, people walking, people talking, people smiling and laughing, people doing silly things, dogs, dogs barking, dogs eatting, dogs playing, fishing boats, big boats and little boats, dingys, jet skis and ferrys. We have seen the police on foot, on bike, in the car and on sea. Fishermen in the pub, eatting a pasty and working on there colourful boats, harbours with hundreds of little boats, harbours with big expensive boats, and massive Navy boats filling harbours. We have passed navy, marine and RAF, watched helicopters, gazed at marines, and loved big navy warships. We have seen things people shouldnt see, we have laughed at things that shouldn;t be laughed at, we have cried when it hurt and giggle when it felt good, the smell of baking fills the villages, pastys and bread, fish and chips winging there way out tighly clasped in the hands, bringing with them the hunger making smell, fresh fish coming in on the boats filling the air with a fresh scent and smell the most amazing smell, the sea,the seaweed crashing against the roacks, the sand and the walls. We have done nearly 450 miles of the most amazing, differing coastline in the world. but we still have a way to go, more of the same and a lot of new and amazing sights smells and thoughts.
Untill the next have a good one
charlie
xx
Thursday 1 April 2010
wel well well
hello, well what a great day it has been today, the sun was shinning when i got up...it wasnt in the middle of the night ealy hours of this morning...it was very strange i happily tucked up under my dubet when suddenly the car started to move the rain came down in increduble forse and the wind blow.....:( wasnt so nice, but i had brave mac for a cuddle hehe, then just loke that it was gone again...but weird!!
This morning we were all up late so our record for leaving a camposite was never going to be broken! i think we are actually getting later and later everytime...planty of practise still to come though.
After a lovely shower at Padstoe touring pack which has fab disabled facilities, bit of a steep ramp which has a none slip bit at the bottem...nearly came a cropper a couple of times, any how after a nice shower, we pack the car up (one thing i am def getting better at each time, even though there is more stuff i seem to make more room...talant!) we found our new site, watergate bay touring park, and settles in, it was funny watching the tents being put up in the wind...they were blowing all over the place lol. We set off back to padstow, and the heat was lovely through the car window :). I had done a bit of house work, and made sure that the passengers knew that new rules...no going behind my seat, i hav to be tough with them, cos otherwise things are put anywhere and then they get troden on, and lost....and its my home so i think it deserves a bit of repect, they look after their tents...huh thats what i think anyway...lol. Padstow was so busy when we got their, wuite lovely to see, its like a completely different pace when the suns out, found a disabled spot very easily, even though there seem to be only 3 in the whole place, i dont think that wheelchair users at a common thing...and i can kind of see why, i wouldne have said it was very exessable, but it would lose all of its charm is it had ramps fitted everywhere, and buildings transformed, stuff us wheelies, we can always ask for some help. :). Mum and roz headed off bout 12.15 and we said i would meet them 2 - 2.30 hours later at Harlyn bay, so whilei was in padstoe i got a couple of cornish pasties for there lunch, then poped to tesco to get them a good drink. And merroly made my way to harlyn, it was also busy there, i had to double check at one point i was in haryn bay, cos there were no signs lol. I got there late so was worrid they would be waitng for me...well 3pm came and went...then 3.30pm...i thought that mayb they had gone further cos we did discuss the possibility, but i deciede to wait...at 4.15 i was worrid, drove round the car park 5 or 6 times trying to deside what to do, the last time as i look out of my mirror i saw them just coming over the hil, i was so glad, i was getting really worrid. They were fine and didnt relaise what the time was...apparently it was a hard wind.
got top sort out some new walkie talkies cos i hate not being in contact with them.
rite im cold so going to tuck into the duvet and play some uni....it must be my time to win lol lo
take care
xxxxx
This morning we were all up late so our record for leaving a camposite was never going to be broken! i think we are actually getting later and later everytime...planty of practise still to come though.
After a lovely shower at Padstoe touring pack which has fab disabled facilities, bit of a steep ramp which has a none slip bit at the bottem...nearly came a cropper a couple of times, any how after a nice shower, we pack the car up (one thing i am def getting better at each time, even though there is more stuff i seem to make more room...talant!) we found our new site, watergate bay touring park, and settles in, it was funny watching the tents being put up in the wind...they were blowing all over the place lol. We set off back to padstow, and the heat was lovely through the car window :). I had done a bit of house work, and made sure that the passengers knew that new rules...no going behind my seat, i hav to be tough with them, cos otherwise things are put anywhere and then they get troden on, and lost....and its my home so i think it deserves a bit of repect, they look after their tents...huh thats what i think anyway...lol. Padstow was so busy when we got their, wuite lovely to see, its like a completely different pace when the suns out, found a disabled spot very easily, even though there seem to be only 3 in the whole place, i dont think that wheelchair users at a common thing...and i can kind of see why, i wouldne have said it was very exessable, but it would lose all of its charm is it had ramps fitted everywhere, and buildings transformed, stuff us wheelies, we can always ask for some help. :). Mum and roz headed off bout 12.15 and we said i would meet them 2 - 2.30 hours later at Harlyn bay, so whilei was in padstoe i got a couple of cornish pasties for there lunch, then poped to tesco to get them a good drink. And merroly made my way to harlyn, it was also busy there, i had to double check at one point i was in haryn bay, cos there were no signs lol. I got there late so was worrid they would be waitng for me...well 3pm came and went...then 3.30pm...i thought that mayb they had gone further cos we did discuss the possibility, but i deciede to wait...at 4.15 i was worrid, drove round the car park 5 or 6 times trying to deside what to do, the last time as i look out of my mirror i saw them just coming over the hil, i was so glad, i was getting really worrid. They were fine and didnt relaise what the time was...apparently it was a hard wind.
got top sort out some new walkie talkies cos i hate not being in contact with them.
rite im cold so going to tuck into the duvet and play some uni....it must be my time to win lol lo
take care
xxxxx
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