Uinneag
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I know this is long winded but please take time to read 
No Africa or India this year for me as I need to spend the time at home hopefully building my extension so no plans and was thinking of what to do in 2010
Are some things ment to be or written in the stars
I got an e-mail last week regarding building a road in Gambia from a couple in Edinburgh.
For 20 years, Calum MacLeod toiled alone to build a road to his croft on the island of Raasay, near Skye.
He began the arduous job in the 1960s after failing to win public funds for an upgrade, and his exploits featured in the best-selling 2006 book Calum's Road by the Raasay-based author Roger Hutchison.
Now that story has inspired the building of a four-mile lifeline road for an impoverished part of Africa, cut off by rainwater for six months of the year.
Now I came up with the idea of a sponsored bike ride on my Katoom from Calums rd Raasay to Calums rd Gambia to help raise funds and selfishly have a an adventure myself.
I contacted Mairi in Ediburgh to ask what she thought of the idea and told her I wouldn't be doing it blind as I know some peeps the would give me plenty of advice as they had done this trip on ScootersShe passed on my e-mail to someone else
here it is
Dear Mairi and Johnny,
Mairi forwarded your email about the proposed sponsored bike ride across to The Gambia. What a small world it is. The Scooters across the Sahara lads also bought scooters for some of Stella's projects, (the village clinic and the school) Those scooters are still going strong and have been a huge help to us, that group have done wonderful things. It was Stella's wish that the road should be built as she hadn't succeeded in doing it before she died. I am sure that your friends would have known her.
The bike ride is a wonderful idea and if you should go ahead with it, we would give you as much support as possible in terms of coverage and accomodation etc. in The Gambia.
You'll all have to come to the ceilidh that we plan to hold at the opening of the road too!
With very best wishes,
Heather (Stella's sister)
So Jan 2010 is a go go go
No Africa or India this year for me as I need to spend the time at home hopefully building my extension so no plans and was thinking of what to do in 2010
Are some things ment to be or written in the stars
I got an e-mail last week regarding building a road in Gambia from a couple in Edinburgh.
For 20 years, Calum MacLeod toiled alone to build a road to his croft on the island of Raasay, near Skye.
He began the arduous job in the 1960s after failing to win public funds for an upgrade, and his exploits featured in the best-selling 2006 book Calum's Road by the Raasay-based author Roger Hutchison.
Now that story has inspired the building of a four-mile lifeline road for an impoverished part of Africa, cut off by rainwater for six months of the year.
Now I came up with the idea of a sponsored bike ride on my Katoom from Calums rd Raasay to Calums rd Gambia to help raise funds and selfishly have a an adventure myself.
I contacted Mairi in Ediburgh to ask what she thought of the idea and told her I wouldn't be doing it blind as I know some peeps the would give me plenty of advice as they had done this trip on ScootersShe passed on my e-mail to someone else
here it is
Dear Mairi and Johnny,
Mairi forwarded your email about the proposed sponsored bike ride across to The Gambia. What a small world it is. The Scooters across the Sahara lads also bought scooters for some of Stella's projects, (the village clinic and the school) Those scooters are still going strong and have been a huge help to us, that group have done wonderful things. It was Stella's wish that the road should be built as she hadn't succeeded in doing it before she died. I am sure that your friends would have known her.
The bike ride is a wonderful idea and if you should go ahead with it, we would give you as much support as possible in terms of coverage and accomodation etc. in The Gambia.
You'll all have to come to the ceilidh that we plan to hold at the opening of the road too!
With very best wishes,
Heather (Stella's sister)
So Jan 2010 is a go go go
Small world indeed.......we met Heather at Stella's memorial service a few months back, and as she says, we knew Stella very well - what an inspiratoinal and utterly dedicated lady she was and her lagacy deserves to live for many many years. 
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