Come join me for a beer afterwards

I shall be sliding across between 2pm and 3pm, this Saturday. I'm not allowed a beer before hand unfortunately, but that doesn't have to stop you. There is a place for people waiting to congratulate me over on the Newcastle side of the water, which is conveniently located close the Pitcher and Piano. I would suggest this could be a good meeting place post-slide.

Have I ever annoyed you? Pissed you off a bit? Made you you want to throw me off a building?

Well, here's you chance. A one shot chance to see me fall to a messy ending*, either on the concrete below the Baltic, or possibly into the Tyne itself**. Since the departure of the Tuxedo Princess, the waters of the Tyne are now so clean I might actually drown, rather than thump into its surface.

Now I am not hurling myself off the edge of the art gallery just for your entertainment. No, on the 1st of November, I shall be raising money for St Clare's Hospice by ziplining across the Tyne from the top of the Baltic. Through the magic power of gravity and steel cables, I shall whizz magically across the river, much like a graceful bat, or large bird***

St Clare's do some excellent work providing palliative care for people in the South Tyneside area (thats the bit south of Newcastle for all you Southerners), particularly for people with lymphoedema problems. If you can spare a quid, it would mean a lot to me, and them.

If you are in the area, come on down.

• * falling a possibility, not a guarantee
• ** No really, if it does happen, it will be a major news story.
• *** grace is unlikely. Looking like a fat extra in a crap action film, much more likely.