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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jul 4, 2008 23:02:36 GMT 1
Status of Challenge: Level 1: 1:1 The Wolf team's shaman, Mr Mincemeat, is out for a Revenge Challenge, however, we have agreed to delegate the outcome to the members here! Our fate is in YOUR hands! I NEED SOME SPONSORS! Because he was beaten in the Dragon's Fire Challenge, and ended up with a 'George Clooney' look at his wife's hands, the Wolf Team's Shaman has been busy getting sponsorship for charity to manipulate me into agreeing to same thing! I have agreed on the understanding that AT LEAST £100 in sponsorship can be raised towards the planned, new TRPD Pool's Storage Facility AND if if he agrees to MATCH any sponsorship up to a maximum of £999! As the cause to benefit from the challenge will be the TRPD Pool's new storage facility that we hope to build soon on land belonging to me, and which will benefit a number of different TRPD groups, including this one, all of the groups that will be able to use that will have the chance to contribute towards the cost, if they wish. There are a number of fund-raising projects and challenges planned, and this is just one. If you wish to sponsor me to go along with the Shaman's challenge and for this cause, please post below. The challenge will run for ONE WEEK only, though, and if a total of £100 or more is pledged, I'll go along with the challenge and post an 'after' photo, alongside this 'before' one! Because I commence chemotherapy on 18th July, and am participating in the IBT trials to see if that can help to prevent hair loss during chemo, I'll not be in a position to accept the 'cold cap' treatment, as that would interfer with the trial experiment, and neither can I go beyond matching the poor, old Wolfie Team Shaman, for the same reason... BUT his wife has promised to ensure that he keeps to his end of the deal, else she will personally scalp him! Sponsorship To Date:SIMike: £10 - PAID.Warrior Nik: £10 - PAID.Aunt Aggie: £10 - PAID.GoingtotheDogs: £14.29 - PAID.Viv: £5.02 - PAID.AnnK: £11.39p - PAID.Anonymous local member: £18 - PAID.Maggie: £2 - PAID.MelP - (Refuge): £10.50p - PAID.KarenP: £14.29p - PAID.Happylittlegreensquirrel - (Refuge): £13.59p Loose Change donor: £0.72p - PAID.Found on pavement outside: 20p - PAID.Total pledged to date: £119.70p Total paid to date: £96.41p Total due from the Wolves Team's Shaman £119.70 (This means that from now on, all sponsorship raised before Friday evening now has to be matched by the Wolf Team's Shaman, and up to a maximum of £999, so please help if you can! Thanks.)[/b] Sponsorship to: TRPD at the usual addrees please (see any sales thread for that) or by paypal to: dogcraftproject@trpd.freeserve.co.uk - Thank you.
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Post by Viv on Jul 5, 2008 11:59:35 GMT 1
I will sponsor you Al.
Please put me down for £5.00
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jul 5, 2008 15:13:50 GMT 1
Thank you, Viv. Come on, everyone, Wolves and Wiildcats! Wildcats, if we can get this up to at least £100 it's going to teach that pesky Wolf Team Shaman a lesson and help a lot of moths find their way out of that infamous wallet of his. ;D Wolves, much as you might want to preserve your shaman's wallet intact, he is really hoping to get his revenge on me, and all in a good cause.
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Mr. Mincemeat
Wolf Team Member
Wolf Pack Shaman
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.'
Posts: 48
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Post by Mr. Mincemeat on Jul 5, 2008 20:35:37 GMT 1
No, no, no, no. no! Do not sponsor her! I've already lost my wallet, see? I was tricked into this. It's all down to collusion on the part of Hanne and half a dozen others and including that naked science fellow, that Mr Elevatorman. I want words with that Andrew Fletcher fellow about his wizardry an all. Come on, butty, show yourself here, on account of certain matters I hear you have been discussing on the QT with my daughter. Gone out and bought a bed, she has, and all on account of you and that mysterious theory of yours about gravitational forces and causing things to rise when they ain't supposed to. THAT record of mine has stood for 21 years and now the missus is on about lifting our bed head, and butty, she ain't about to put up with a couple of breeze blocks in the bedroom or only on pains of her using 'em for a totally difference purpose. Oh no, she's only gone and ordered a whole new solid oak, hand made bed frame! Wants it carved too with native stuff from her homeland and I don't suppose it'll end at a bed! Oh no, she'll be wanting wardrobes and a dressing table and chests and things next and all to match! Heirlooms, she do call 'em. Here for posterity! "Posterity?" I said. "What about prosperity? I will be skint at this rate!" What is more, I reckon it's your doing as how I've been earthed with blooming bracelet and electrode wire things just to get on a computer and all!
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jul 5, 2008 23:41:11 GMT 1
And you STILL darned well crashed half the programmes that were running so consider yourself banned from using it - again. Rally the cats, Viv & Alibullie, and let's get some more sponsors. Any wolf who has £2K to spend on a new bed can afford to chip in a fair bit toward the new storage shed.
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Post by Ann K on Jul 6, 2008 1:28:20 GMT 1
I will sponsor you Al £10
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jul 6, 2008 11:01:55 GMT 1
Thank you, Ann. Come on, everyone, we need at least £100 before that Wolf Shaman has to open his wallet, and that could help get the TRPD Pool building project off to a good start. These are just some of the ways this building can help different groups and their projects. 1. Storage for materials for the PCP, Cwm Clydach Crafters & many other craft related groups. 2. Storage for equipment, bird seed etc., and meeting place for the Woodland and Wildlife Project and other related groups/individuals. 3. Shelter/tea making/meeting place for any TRPD dog walking/rambling/horse riding/cycling groups/individuals visiting the area. (A stable could be made available for a trail rider etc. and a loal cycle trail connecting to the Taff Trail is adjacent to the property, too!) 4. Provides a drop off/collection/storage point for items being recycled to benefit rescues. (E.G. Blankets/duvets, dig beds etc. becuse, at present, many often have to be turned away due to nowhere to hold or store them.) This could include boxes of goods suitable for charity shops or car beet sales that aid animal rescues, and until sufficient for a car load to be taken to a beneficiary or passed into the transport system. I am sure there will be many other uses that come to light as we go along, but other benefits will be that extra local members will be able to hold a key to this shared TRPD facility, as required. It will also enable an easier and quicker turnover of stock and donated goods. It will also mean that I can personally reclaim my home, and my son and grandson can move in and have their own bedrooms instead of having to pay rent because those are currently filled to overcapacity with things belonging to various TRPD groups that many seem to have forgotten about!
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Post by maggie on Jul 6, 2008 18:05:00 GMT 1
I will sponsor £2, and would like to know if IBT will help my husbands gout? He says he will incline our bed if it will and after having seen how much less swollen Al's legs are in the few days she has been doing it, it would probably help my legs too. I am on then too much but my doctor justs says put them up, rest and keep taking the tablets for arthritis and water retention.
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jul 6, 2008 20:44:28 GMT 1
Thanks for the sponsorship, Maggie. I know you have a spare room... ;D Have made suggestions as to what would help your husband's gout and kidney stones, and that, along with IBT might well make a new man of him.
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jul 7, 2008 18:08:20 GMT 1
We only need another £25 sponsorship here to get that matched from the Wolf Team's shaman, so surely some more members can help a bit, please? Next Sunday, Amy will be bringing Louie along for visit to the site and a walk through the fields and the wooded area, as well as along the tracks and trails open to the public and adjacent to the site. She will be bringing along her camera, too.
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Post by Viv on Jul 7, 2008 21:38:20 GMT 1
Just paid by paypal Al sponsorship plus paypal fees
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jul 8, 2008 3:57:26 GMT 1
Thanks, Viv.
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Post by Ann K on Jul 8, 2008 8:09:57 GMT 1
Paid via paypal, paypal fee added
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Post by WarriorNik on Jul 8, 2008 13:25:59 GMT 1
Thanks, Ann. I have updated and slightly amended the totals now, to take into cosideration the extra pennies that can be added thanks to some of you kindly adding Paypal fees, which is much appreciated. As one of the adjudicators for this challenge, and aware of how much difference the proposed new facility will mae to this and numerous other groups and the causes they support, I really hope we can get just a bit more sponsorship for this challenge! Several other groups are running parallel challenges and events, therefore it isn't only our special cause that will benefit - BUT WE COULD DO BETTER! PLEASE, please, everyone, if you can manage to sponsor Al just a few more pounds before Friday, the total amount raised could easily be doubled, and the shaman's really not short of a few quid at present! With the facility only about 15 minutes drive from the M4, situated in lovely dog walking/cycling/riding country full of wildlife, and with so much extra offered by Al, besides the land it'll be situated on, and with the backing of her son, there is masses of potential here for fun and the serious purpose of storage needs.
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jul 9, 2008 0:47:49 GMT 1
Thanks to Mel, there only another £13.59p needed before the Wolves' Team Shaman has to start matching the sponsorship! I reckon he must have been shaking his shaman's rattles or something, but then again, he's stirred up all manner of other groups' members for various different causes, so that I'm over a barrel! He also seems to have arranged for various goods to be donated for an auction to support this same cause that he'll have to contribute to if I can get the required sponsorship, even though persuading others not to sponsor me to save his own pocket. Lol (Not that his efforts will let him off the hook! If I don't get him this time, I will another! ) Just imagine you could be joining us for a 'Puppy Dogs Picnic' somewhere like this soon... or even enjoying a 'Doggy Treasure Hunt' or a 'Photo Shoot' for the next members' calendar...
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Post by KarenP on Jul 9, 2008 20:53:23 GMT 1
I'll sponsor you £13.59 Al.
Will paypal now.
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jul 10, 2008 0:20:00 GMT 1
Thank you, Karen. Payment recieved for £14.29p after fees, so that pesky Shaman is going to have to start emptying his money boxes to double the sponsorship from now on, and up to a maximum of £999 - and his wife's threatening him with her rolling pin and skillet, as well as several big lads offering to up-end and shake him, too! Amy says she has her water-proofs at the ready for Sunday too, as rain is forecast again... Suppose the Shaman's been doing a rain dance? Typical!
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Post by WarriorNik on Jul 11, 2008 21:59:39 GMT 1
As one of the adjudicators for this challenge, I can confirm that Al has succumbed to the shears for her part of this sponsored event. (Amy, perhaps you can get photographic proof for the thread on Sunday, please? ;D ) The shaman now claims that he won't pay up until all the sponsorship is in and in case some don't send it. Of course, we anticipated he might try that one on, but will humour him a while longer. Typical, tight-fisted MAN!
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Post by AmyJo on Jul 13, 2008 22:05:11 GMT 1
Hello Im here with the photographic evidence that Al has definately been shorn ;D
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Post by Old Dragon (Al) on Jul 13, 2008 22:41:08 GMT 1
What I need is to be shorn of some of that surplus weight! After all the exercise today, I'll be very disappointed if I've not managed to lose at least half a pound! Only one of the walks is adjacent to where the local off-road bikers have their track and meeting place. From the top of the track where Amy's posted the lovely view, it is possible to see the sea - well, the Bristol Channel, and over to Somerset. That doesn't show up very clearly on any of the photos we took. Will post more later.
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