Pub crawl....with a difference!

Only a week to go before my fundraising run between Bournemouth Hospital and Wave105 in order to link the two charities. Tricia 'offered' (well, actually she was coerced into agreeing but in reality, as there were pubs involved she didn't take too much persuading!) to come out with me last Friday in order to drop off the posters / flyers and charity tins to the 6 pubs who had kindly confirmed they would support my idea :
- for Saturday this would be The House Martin in Barton-on-Sea then The Gun Inn at Keyhaven finishing at The Turfcutters in East Boldre
- for Sunday, The Waterloo Arms in Lyndhurst followed by The Platform Tavern in Southampton before hitting The Victory Inn down in Hamble
We hoped to do impromptu collections at the same time and the landlords and ladies didn't let us down...amazingly we collected a total of £229.37! One guy graciously dropped a £50 note in the bucket once I had looked him in the eyes and told him what I was doing was for real.....it was a real 'lump in the back of the throat' moment when we realised what he had done : again I'm gobsmacked at how generous and trusting a lot of people are.
The awful news was that despite rushing round the 6 pubs, not a drop of liquid passed our lips nor did we manage to have time to grab anything to eat!  It was a long drive back home and can't believe that I'll be running that same distance in a few days time (gulp!).
My 'support crew' has been finalised : Saturday will be Ellen and Liz as the double act in the car then Lauren (doubling up as my official FaceBook photo taker), Debbie, Tricia and Debs on the bikes.  For Sunday, Ellen in the car and Lauren, Caro and Tricia on two wheels.  I'm really looking forward to it but scared at the same time - I just hope that the weather sorts it's act out and doesn't rain on us.  I've even asked everyone to wear the charity t shirts over the top of their waterproofs if this does happen!