This gives me an opportunity to tell you of a little known tradition amongst the Coast to Coast fraternity .. pebble carrying.
Yes that's right, carry a pebble 190 miles across the country and then through it into the sea. Sounds a bit odd to me, but Aunty Debbie explains 'I haven't completely lost the plot - one of the C2C traditions is to collect a pebble from St Bees's, carry it to RHB and deposit it in the North Sea. So we are playing our part in a steady geological transfer that may one day baffle scientists!
The 1p is for scale. I think our choices of pebble were apt - I chose the smallest one I could find (on the right) and Dave chose the flattest he could find - a skimmer! Definitely a boy thing!'
I think that's a really nice tradition, although Aunty Debbie went on to tell me 'having carried it all this way I've got quite attached to mine and I'll be quite sorry to see it go!'
We here back at base camp, and that includes Max and Inca on their not quite as strenuous holiday, are all very proud of our trio and especially of Fergus who is getting closer to the beach every day. (I hope the tide is out when he gets there and he gets to feel the sand between his paws.) On top of the walking efforts, he has also managed to raise £925 for the AHT, which in all honesty is an amount that none of us ever expected to get close to.
I know Debbie, Dave and Fergus would like me to say on their behalf a very big thank you to everyone for their support, messages and donations.
