Hello once again!

Our updates over the past week or so probably suggested that things were not all too well in our world of fridge. After taking several days rest we got ourselves back on track and hoped to be at the finish for this weekend. Unfortunately a few days rest did absolutely nothing; well I tell a small lie, it allowed Marcus to walk pain free for around 2 or 3 miles, but after that it simly became worse and worse. He limped on for around 30 miles in quite a lot of pain, but in the end it was only going to get worse, and it became too much to carry on.

So we found ourselves just south of Tedburn St. Mary yesterday, inside Dartmoor National Park. It was at this point when the knee brace, pain killers, weird cream stuff AND a stretchy bandage became insuffiecent to stop Marcus being in complete agony. So we sat there thinking "What the hell do we do now?" We'd tried the resting it for a few days option, and it'd done nothing. The only option we had left available to us was to take a month out back home to allow the knee to heal, with an aim to start again in a months' time.

Obviously this is a completely awful thing to have happened, and so close to the end! 4 days walking from the end in fact! But it simply can't be helped, and is a side-effect of walking such a ridiculously long way with a fridge. Again, being so close to the end, it shows just how bad it actually was.

So then we asked whether I should carry on and finish the walk, being so close to the end, with a view to coming back when Marcus is ready, and walking with him. Thing is though is that we've come so far together. We've walked over a 1,000 miles across (almost) the whole country. It would be wrong, and totally against the spirit of fridge to finish seperately and as a result that was out of the question.

So we're stuck in a situation which is hardly brilliant, but it's not the end of the world. We'll get dropped back off in a months time where we were picked up, and complete the walk then. Our original plan before we started the walk was to finish before Christmas, and that is something that (provided Marcus' knee is not completely and utterly buggered) we will do! Promise. 

Wish Marcus a speedy recovery, and watch this space!

Picture updates coming very soon too!

James