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Half a century ago, I enjoyed sculling as a schoolboy and last year I took to the river again, wobbling about in a knife-thin single scull for the first time in all those years. My aim was to raise money for Holy Cross Hospital in Haslemere, a brilliant place whose patients include a young cousin of mine who was very seriously hurt in a cycling accident two years ago. As his great friend Tom Hatton put it, 'the lights went out a bit' for all of us; but since then they have started to come back on again. Ever so slowly, but it is happening.
Now Tom and other amazing friends of my cousin plus our large and lively family, are raising money for a woodland walkway at Holy Cross. It's fully explained on the main campaign page and it's such an excellent idea. My small part in helping is to row my faithful touring sculling boat Clementine from Port Meadow in Oxford to Eel Pie Island, a voyage of a little over 100 miles. I'm going to do this in September but fund-raising is well under way now, and if you can help my morale by sponsoring me in aid of the Treehouse Project, that would be fantastic.
I hope to keep everyone informed about my progress, which started with a very enjoyable capsize test in the heated swimming pool of an Oxford girls' school last May, progressed on the micro boating lake at Hinksey Park in the Summer and survived Autumn tourist traffic and hefty college boats on the Thames. I owe a huge debt to Hinksey Sculling School, the City of Oxford Rowing Club and Glide Boats, the inspired inventors and makers of Clementine.
It's not going to be easy but I think I can do it. Every donation will keep me going and, much more important, bring stimulus and a taste of the great outdoors to patients at Holy Cross. Warmest thanks for taking an interest.
Half a century ago, I enjoyed sculling as a schoolboy and last year I took to the river again, wobbling about in a knife-thin single scull for the first time in all those years. My aim was to raise money for Holy Cross Hospital in Haslemere, a brilliant place whose patients include a young cousin of mine who was very seriously hurt in a cycling accident two years ago. As his great friend Tom Hatton put it, 'the lights went out a bit' for all of us; but since then they have started to come back on again. Ever so slowly, but it is happening.
Now Tom and other amazing friends of my cousin plus our large and lively family, are raising money for a woodland walkway at Holy Cross. It's fully explained on the main campaign page and it's such an excellent idea. My small part in helping is to row my faithful touring sculling boat Clementine from Port Meadow in Oxford to Eel Pie Island, a voyage of a little over 100 miles. I'm going to do this in September but fund-raising is well under way now, and if you can help my morale by sponsoring me in aid of the Treehouse Project, that would be fantastic.
I hope to keep everyone informed about my progress, which started with a very enjoyable capsize test in the heated swimming pool of an Oxford girls' school last May, progressed on the micro boating lake at Hinksey Park in the Summer and survived Autumn tourist traffic and hefty college boats on the Thames. I owe a huge debt to Hinksey Sculling School, the City of Oxford Rowing Club and Glide Boats, the inspired inventors and makers of Clementine.
It's not going to be easy but I think I can do it. Every donation will keep me going and, much more important, bring stimulus and a taste of the great outdoors to patients at Holy Cross. Warmest thanks for taking an interest.
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Rowing down the river
Half a century ago, I enjoyed sculling as a schoolboy. . . . .
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Rowing down the river
Half a century ago, I enjoyed sculling as a schoolboy. . . . .
£950 donated |
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