What A Sweet New Bike

A massive thanks to Justin & Mike at MDI cycles, they've just sorted me out with a great set up for a new bike. I've just had it all build up and it's like a true beauty. I'm off tomorrow so I'm going to break my arse into the saddle, it's hard work but someone's got to do it.

More prizes

I've been offered a more prizes now, I've got a Back, Neck & Shoulder massage from Elegante Beauty & Holistic Therapies in Bootle. thanks very much to all the staff there & to Cathy for sorting it out. I've also been offered gift certificate for a a set of Creative Acrylic nails from Advanced Mobile Nails, thanks again to Jenny for that one.

Triphazard Rock!

I've just been informed that local band Triphazard have agreed to play on Friday 2nd May at the Race night.
Triphazard are a four piece band who are born and bred in Merseyside which consists of two girls and two guys.

The bands roots began when Stef Stokes, a successful solo performer wanted to form a band. Stef, since the age of 14 had gained recognition on TV, newspapers and radio but wanted to be recognised as a music professional similar to Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry and Annie Lennox.
Auditions took place from November 2004 onwards with advice from successful professionals within the music industry. Those candidates who were serious, had character and dedication were chosen. Constant rehearsals and perseverance followed and Triphazards first performance was at a Charity Gig for Marie Curie.

Successful appearances took place within the Northwest and as a result, Triphazard launched the event of Strummers at the Mint Lounge in Manchester. They have appeared numerous times on radio stations such as Radio Merseyside, Juice FM, Radio Lancashire, KCR Radio, QT Radio and Aiiradio.

Currently, they are in the studios putting down tracks for their new album which is due for release in 2008.

If you wish to contact Triphazard for gig opportunities, their e-mail is: triphazardband@hotmail.co.uk

Thanks to Andy & Sue at Squeek Studios.

My Work Colleagues aren't Bad Really!

Today in work I was made up to have one of the lads come round selling raffle tickets, all the money raised from this will be going to Help for Heroes.

We get a budget for incentives and the likes and they's managed to get hold of an HD DVD player as a prize which is great, there's also a huge whiskey bottle full of coins and theres a prize for the person who gets the closest total.

That's an extra 50p per raffle ticket and guess, it's all adding up.

The Clubs Are Getting Behind Me

This morning I have received a letter in the post from Liverpool Football Club, Beverley Roberts the PR Officer has provided me with a family ticket for the Anfield Stadium & Museum tour. This allows up to four people to follow the stadium tour which takes you behind the scenes at Anfield, visiting the dressing rooms, down the tunnel to the sound of the crowd, a chance to touch the famous “This Is Anfield’ sign and sit in the team dug-out. Informative tour guides will tell you about the great Anfield Stadium and escort you on to The Kop - surely the most famous terrace in World football. You can then visit the Museum which features two film shows - the first is in a recreation of the standing Kop and tells the story of the incredible 'Kopites', the other is a cinema showing 'One Night in May', the wonderful documentary about that night in Istanbul.

So far the prize list consists of:

Meal for Four & Bottle of Champagne - Alma De Cuba

Meal for Two – Est Est Est
Familt Ticket - Anfield Stadium & Museum Tour

Family Ticket – The Beatles Story Exhibition
Canvas Portrait – gocre8

A2 Photo Print - Country Art

Biscuit Hampers – Burtons Foods

Why Haven't I Offered Anything?

I was just sat here looking at my Country Art site and suddenly thought why haven't I offered something? So I'm going to provide any print from the site in A2. I'm in the process of getting more ready to add so there will be a much better choice for the winner. Have a look at what we've got there so far on Country Art

And The Prizes Keep On Coming

Great news this weekend I've been offered a great prize from my step-dad John McNally and the Management team at Alma-De-Cuba.
They have kindly offered a bottle of bubbly and a meal for four as a prize. They have recently taken over the bar and are in the process of setting up their website, please visit their site and register your name to keep up to date on future offers, better still get yourself down there and try some of the amazing food and enjoy the carnival atmosphere.

I have also received some amazing gifts from my cousins boyfriend Justin. He runs a website called velosave, they sell all kinds of bike components at great prices. He has offered me some clothes and shoes for the bike ride which is brilliant as it saves me having to go out and buy them. He also also agreed to help me out with a new road bike at a brilliant price. so thanks again Justin.

Possibly I've got some great prizes of the way, a colleague in work has been onto a member of his family regarding prizes and they have got back to him saying that I may be able to get Blackburn Rovers signed items, David Bentley signed England shirt, vouchers for Jackson the jeweller in Blackburn & Spirits as smaller raffle prizes. So watch this space and hopefully these will come off.

So far the prize list consists of:
Meal for Four & Bottle of Champagne - Alma De Cuba
Meal for Two – Est Est Est
Family Ticket – The Beatles Story Exhibition
Canvas Portrait – gocre8
Biscuit Hampers – Burtons Foods

Oh The Pain

Well I did the Liverpool Half Marathon at the weekend...that was nice.

At roughly the 6 mile point my ankle did something funny and got quite painful, I battled on to the to of Parliament street and then down Princes Street till I saw an ambulance. I got a lovely plaster for the blister I'd been cultivating and noticed a big red ankle thing going on. Being a real trooper I hobbled round the rest of the course so I could collect my medal then went home to sulk. About an hour after I finished I even got a text to tell me how badly I'd done.
Your time - 02:17:35
Position - 2886
Chip Time - 02:14:11
Rank - 2911
Category - MOPEN
Category Position - 1404
talk about rubbing salt in to the wounds... I was hoping for around 01:45, ah well there's always next year.

Anyway back to the ankle, I was off on Monday & Tuesday (thank god) so I went to the doctors to see what had happened. They had decided to change the appointment system and as my leg was still on it wasn't an emergency and I was told to call up in the morning to try and maybe get an appointment on the Thursday. Gutted, I went back to the car to find that it wouldn't start...this day was getting worse, oh I forgot to mention that Donna had my keys so I was locked out till I could get to her work and pick them up. This was going to be a long walk in to town. 2 hours later & £80 down the RAC got me back on the road, I went and got my keys and went home to sulk again.

On the Tuesday I got up bright and early and went to the Drop-In centre and was told that I had a sweet case of achilles tendonitis, so it's 1-2 weeks on crutches and loads of ibuprofen pills for me then. I don't want to delay it's recovery or make the injury worse so I'm sticking to the letter on this one, 2 weeks out is bad but if I couldn't do the ride I'd be gutted.

Anyway the sponsorship is starting to build up now and hopefully I'll have a few more prizes for the raffle soon, I'm going to have to start looking at getting some tickets printed...any ideas?