The little hill

To celebrate three months of early mornings, seriously hard-work, sleeping in hammocks or on concrete floors, eating prison rations and generally not having a moment free to actually breath, I decided to end my Raleigh experience with one last bout of self-inflicted pain..... enter MOUNT KINABALU (I have deliberately put this in capitals to try and scare you as much as it scared me!!) all 4, 095m of it !!

I'm pretty sure it's the highest thing I've ever attempted and given my measly little dumpy legs, I didn't do half bad. I made it up (and down) in a very respectable time and despite said little dumpy legs now being unable to bend at the knees, I seem to have come off unscathed.

So, that's it... my time with Raleigh is over. To coin one of their favourite terms I will agree that it has been a Raleigh Roller coaster of a ride and one that I wouldn't have missed for the world. The participants really seemed to warm to me and I got some fantastic feedback at the end of both my phases - so much for thinking I couldn't be a PM! I've discovered that I'm not totally useless around a tool box and if I do say so myself I'm a bit of a ball breaker on the work site - that's a blooming surprise. It's been hard work and I'm knackered but I've absolutely loved it. I also got to meet Toby and for that alone it was well worth the air fare.

So here I am, a free woman again, sitting in an internet cafe trying to decide what to do with the rest of my life (or at the very least the rest of the week!)

I currently have a delightful chest infection so Mr Mastercard has let me check into a slightly swanky hotel where I intend to lie low for a few days. I have never been so excited to see white sheets and a porcelain toilet in my life.

I'm now off for a hot date with some noodles and the movie channel - rock on.

Thank you everyone for sending fab emails whilst I've been incommunicado - it was great to come back to them all.

I promise I will get better at updating this now that I'm back in the world of emails and internet cafes so stay tuned for the next installment of ........ Tales of an Aging Spinster!

Till then
Love you all,
Vic xxxx