Its been a busy couple of weeks so I thought I had better update the Blog.
Last week was the first ‘Scrubs’ run for sometime and another Laptop collection for the MyTimeYoungCarers of Dorset. So I rode to Warsash to collect some scrubs materiel, then off to Farnborough to collect a laptop, then back to Southampton to deliver the materiel to the Sewers. The laptop was not available so there was no need to ride down to Poole.
Yesterday (18th Jan) saw a quick ride up to Newbury to pick up some more Scrubs and deliver one package to Basingstoke and a second package to Fareham. This run was Leg 3 of a long relay from Derbyshire to Hampshire organised by Volunteer Riders UK (VRUK).
Today was another Laptop distribution run for the MyTimeYoungCarers of Dorset. I collected 6 Laptops that had been donated to the group and set off to various destination throughout Dorset with some wonderful sounding names (Weymouth, Sturminster Marshal, Corfe Castle, Milton Abbas, Bovington and Cattistoke). It was a quick shortcut down to the Sandbanks Ferry.
It was not the nicest of days, with lots of drizzly rain, spray off the road surface, and of course, my nemesis; blustery winds. Thank goodness for the high hedgerows in Dorset, although they were few and far between on the A35, A37 and that very exposed road to Weymouth the A354.. but all the laptops got delivered without incident.
I met with (at a distance) some lovely and very grateful people, especially one family out in the sticks, who all came to the window to wave at me when I left - maybe the kids though I was Santa Claus on a bike…….
Then a quick dash along the A31 to home and a wonderful hot bath and a cup of tea.
Tomorrow I am off the pick up the completed Scrubs from the sewers and take them back to the Scrub Hub in Warsash. Thursday and Friday are free at this time but I have to hose the salt off the bike etc and fix some fence panels at home.