Wednesday 17.04.2013

So suddenly, for the first of the Aberdeenshire contingent, there`s only just over a week to go.
How did that happen?

Last jabs for me this morning and thankfully no side effects: the others are all pin cushioned up and we are now asking each other things like "How much money are you taking? and "Have you got your mosquito net yet?"

The Readathon took place on a frankly cold and inhospitable day of which we`ve had quite a few this winter but nevertheless was pronounced a success - spreading the word about our own Mobile Libraries as well as the work of the BookBus to various locations in the shire



(that`s Aberdeenshire btw - not Hobbit land, although sometimes you wonder.....)and in the wake of which people are still sidling up and quietly producing cheques towards the project.

And our last fund-raising event was nothing short of a triumph - a packed hall for a quiz night that went on far longer than any of us anticipated and for which huge thanks is due to the organisers and the people who came out (on another freezing night!) and contributed so generously.

And, hard though it is to believe, it was the first time the five of us had actually been together since the idea was first mooted last year, so here we are in all our glory:



and two of us even remembered our Book Bus t-shirts!

So not quite sure what else there is to say at this stage. Feel strangely calm which might be a sign that something`s been forgotten.

As I write it is cold, it is wet, it is grey: in Zambia it is 28 degrees Farenheit with 0 percent chance of precipitation. That`ll do......not sure where the next post will be from but bring it on!