Well it's been a fair old while since we've updated this. Since coming back from the walk we've both gotten ourselves jobs and are leading semi-normal lives. After the sheer brilliance of the fridge experience, working in Sainsburys just... I'll get in trouble if I say any more.  Uni in a few months... :)

But yes, in happier news we have decided that it is finally time to close the charity bank account where we've been holding all the money, and send the money off to The Alzheimer's Society. Well, we're going to be sending some to the Alzhiemer's Society SCOTLAND and some to the Alzheimer's Society (everyone else in the UK is happy with one, but Scotland HAS to be difficult!)

The total amount we have raised is £7227.08 and we're really really chuffed about that-  seriously, thank you to all of you for your support and donations throughout the walk. With our original target of £5000 we're obviously very very happy with the result.

After thinking a lot about how to split it, we've decided to give £6000 to Alzheimer's UK and the remaining £1227.08 to Alzheimer's Scotland. It seems heavilly in favour of the "UK" society, especially when we consider how much we loved Scotland and its' people, but it has to be remembered that the population of England Wales and Northern Ireland is something like 55 million in total, when Scotlands' is something like 5 million. Going by that it seems a fair way of splitting the two sums of money.

Through just giving we've already given £1631.81 to the Alzheimer's Society, plus £785 in cheques from companies who didn't want to write them out to our account. That = 2416.81
So we're writing out two cheques; one for £3583.19 to the Alzheimer's UK
And one for 1227.08 to the Alzheimer's Society Scotland.

£2416.81+£3583.19+1227.08= £7227.08! :)

We maintain that it is silly to have two seperate charities that are fighting for the same cause!

Once again a massive massive thank you to everyone who helped us and our cause throughout. It was truly an amazing experience. We're well in to the book we're writing, and all updates on that will appear here.

There is also possibly news to come of a much BIGGER fridge related adventure in the pipeline...... Watch this space!

Thanks again,
James and Marcus

Hi folks!

Last week (the very snowy week) we decided it to be the perfect time to drive the route we walked, and basically stop in and see as many people that helped us out as we could!

We did manage to see almost everyone in Scotland, barr one or two, despite the massive amounts of snow they had up there (they're actually able to deal with it!). For those that we couldn't reach, we hope to be up in Inverness in late August and so we'll come and say hello then!

We also managed to see most people in North East England (barr two of you who live near Blackadder on the border).

It sort of went down hill south of Alnwick though, and with a lot of snow back at home and more forecast we decided to cut the trip short and head back. So we have a few more people to see in the North, hardly anyone between Yorkshire and Devon, and a few in Cornwall! The thought for this is to do it in the spring once we've both got ourselves some jobs and worked long enough to be allowed holiday!

It was briliant driving the bits of the route we did walk; with the A9 near Brora and Golspie, Aviemore, Kinguisse, and Northumberland really standing out!-  it brought back a lot of fond memories! And of course, it was brilliant meeting everyone again, particularly in the knowledge that there was a car to transport us to the next place!

We'll stick further updates on here... I'm still trying to make an exact route of where we walked on google earth so we know how far we walked, and there's still some money coming in to the Alzheimer's Society!

Thanks,

James