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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">In my dim and distant past, I once cycled from Lands End to John O Groats and I always said I would do it again when I was 50. The time has come! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0cm; border: 1pt none windowtext;">My daughter, Molly(16) and her best friend, Deborah,(15) will be joining me and Geoff will be driving a camper van ahead of us. He'll be chief technician, cook and bottle washer. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #800080;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0cm; border: 1pt none windowtext;">We would like to support a couple of charities in the process and would be delighted if you felt you could sponsor us.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: #1c1c1c;">To give to Water Aid, please click on DONATE above. To give to Molly's chosen charity, please follow this link. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; color: #2a42c6;"><a href="http://www.justgiving.com/mollyangell/">http://www.justgiving.com/mollyangell/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: fuchsia; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Water Aid </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: fuchsia; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">aims to transform lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world's poorest communities. See their web site for more details about the amazing and important work they do to. We will be trying to think about the world's water deprived poor every time we take a slurp from our water bottles, especially when we are hot, exhausted and have temporarily run out!</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: fuchsia; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: #1c1c1c;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: #1c1c1c;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; color: #2a42c6;"><a href="http://www.wateraid.org/uk/default.asp">http://www.wateraid.org/uk/default.asp</a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; color: #800080;">We would also love it if friends, family and colleagues were able to join us somewhere on route, preferably to cycle with us for a section of the ride, or if you’re not up for that, then just for a meet up, perhaps a picnic on route, or for a meal at the end of the day. You can sign up to our blog on tmdride.blogspot.com, and find our route there.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19px;">Here’s hoping it might fit with your summer holidays and hoping to meet you somewhere on route. Please let us know if you can join us.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: 19.0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; color: purple; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they’ll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they’ll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it’s the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.</span></p>
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