Due to the wonders of t’interweb (as the Postman still hasn’t been) I now know that I have a place on the 2012 Rab TGO Challenge. Phew! After being number 52 on the standby list in 2011, it’s a relief to know I have a place right at the start.
I have a vague plan for the first couple of days of my route and I have the early musings of a themed walk ….. but that may not come to anything. This year, as I have now completed 5 crossings, I have to submit my route by the end of January, ie a month early. No problems, I’ll have it ready by Xmas. (Ahem! I think I may have said that before).
To anyone who is upset to hear that they’re on the standby list, all I can do is repeat the advice you’ll be hearing from other people:- plan a route, be patient and keep in touch with the Coordinator. I’ve been on the list twice and have regained my place twice, so fingers crossed for you.
PS – The postman has just brought my letter. I’m in!
Around the hills 
Congratulations, goofif.
I may well be in Scotland at that time – gives me an opportunity to stick my foot out and trip you up as you walk by.
Martin R
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Thank you, Martin, how kind. If you tell me where you’re going to be, I shall programme in your ‘bus’ for one of my meal-stops.
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Congrats Judith. Hope the weather is good for you this time. I think it will be.
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The weather must be better than this year. Must be! (It couldn’t be much worse).
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May (how appropriate) I have your votes, please !? Judith…..twelve points, douze points.
Plan wisely and off you go girl ! And kick some a…….ahum : cairns.
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Plan wisely? Ah, that’s where I have been going wrong. Plan haphazardly then make it up when I get there – that’s usually good enough!
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Judith: Its going to be awful. I really don’t know why we do it. It’s such a slog. Then there’s the ticks and the slugs and the over-enthusiastic drinking sessions. And the wrinkly feet, aches and pains. the queue for the immodium at the chemist’s in Braemar….the being washed away , getting lost in miles of sitka, the bogs, the raging streams, the papparazzi and the groupies(oh no, thats just me…)
Congratulations anyway…
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Mike, you’ve just written my 2012 TGOC trip report, thanks!
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