Karine & I together with Lucy & Mike have now got the September Walk in Derbyshire more or less organised. We are calling it "Blood Sweat and Cures" a name suggested by Stewart, our son-in-law. The details are on my Facebook page but to recap this is a two day walk on the weekend of September 17th & 18th. To borrow a phrase from Round Table, the aim of the weekend is "fun, fellowship and fundraising".
Below is the poster giving the details. The link to the JustGiving page on the poster doesn't work because it is an image file but the live link here works fine! If you would like to join us please let us know.
* Blood Sweat and Tears is an American Jazz Rock Band formed in the mid late sixties - "Spinning Wheel" with the opening line 'What goes up must come down' is perhaps their most famous song.
I thought Blood Sweat and Tears was a quote from Winston Churchill. When I checked what he actually said it turns out Byron had used a similar phrase and I'd got the quote from Churchill wrong!
Byron - "Year after year they voted cent per cent
Blood sweat and tear-wrung"
Churchill - "I have nothing to offer you but blood toil tears and sweat" May 1940 in parliament. Trust Churchill to change the order thereby making people do a double take and listen. Also he used the word 'but' rather than 'except' which is what I thought he had said. Churchill wrote his own speeches and part of his genius was to use short words wherever possible.
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