Edward and Anne are on the up!

A hard act to follow Vicki’s last, brilliant blog but a quick update from me, Edward, about preparations and Reuben’s Retreat.  

Like Vicki, I also had the chance to visit Reuben’s Retreat earlier this year. I was amazed to see the scale of the project taken on by one family and how far along the road they are to creating a facility for children with life limiting conditions and their families or those families who have tragically been bereaved. It was a lovely sunny day when we visited and with Howard Park adjacent to the old cottage hospital which is being converted, it does offer a brilliant location for the charity. 

Anne and I have been working out way through some of the old county tops with the idea of climbing a selection of them that together will make up the height of Everest. It’s taking longer than we thought but we did start with Lincolnshire (26ft!) and Norfolk which together only made up about 650 feet. We’ve moved on to more substantial summits now, Staffordshire and on Sunday on the way back from Llandudno we climbed Moel Famau, the highest point in Flintshire. Great views from the top and well worth the climb. 

 

We’ve a big trek planned for this coming Saturday when we’re aiming to do Denbighshire and Montgomeryshire (numbers 6&7 on the list of highest county tops) on the same walk which will more than double our total and get us close to the 10,000 ft mark. At some point we’re going to have to bite the bullet and do some of the peaks over 3,000 ft and a weekend in Cumbria could be well spent near where the three shires of Lancashire, Cumberland and Westmorland met and we could do peaks 2,3 & 9 on the list and tick off another 9,000 ft. 

Thank you to all our friends who have donated so far. We’re almost halfway towards our target of £4,600 now.

 

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