Bob in the Desert

… since this site went live, a little bit more since the Just Giving page (http://www.justgiving.com/bobswalkinthedesert) started and already the total is over £2,000.  I am truly amazed by the generosity of people who are prepared in these difficult financial times to support my venture.  So far most of the money has come from the Shedweb community - the Gloucester Rugby website (www.gloucesterrugby.net) I run.  You people are amazing, I thank you all.

Training is going well, that is if you can call being subjected to two hours of torture several times a week going well.  Pete, my fitness guru has worked out a routine that involves me lurching from machine to machine in an ever more sweaty condition, before groaning in pain as I try and move a silly amount of kilos on various bits of kit.  I feel fitter, though somewhat frustratingly ams still on the XX side of XL.  Time will tell.

My friend Rachel and I are planning some sort of bash to coincide with the Chinese New Year (26 January) as a fund raiser, more information on this to follow.  And Ian has dropped off a lovely Gloucester short signed by the squad which I will auction at some point.  Best of all, my sort-of brother in law, the ace cartoonist Andy Davey (www.andydavey.com) is drawing a whole series of caricatures to auction, raffle or do something with.  As ever more information will follow.

Finally thanks to Sarah at the Gloucester Citizen for an excellent piece in the paper last week, and thanks also to all those people who have ripped the pi55 out of me for pretending to run on a tredmill while wearing walking boots.  It was the photographer who made me do it.

Finally finally, the message board works on this site now - leave a message if you like - I’ll try to reply at some point.

Thanks everyone…