Messages from the Website 20 Jan 08
( Last Updated: 20-01-2008 )
Hey Ben and the rest of your rowing buddies! You're doing so amazingly! I've been checking out the photos and messages on the website and it's all so fantastic what you're doing. I hope your bums are holding up - it's not so far to go now.
I've got my form assembly at school a week on Tuesday and we're doing it on achievements and successes. I thought (so longs you don't mind Ben) that I'd end it talking about all the stuff you've done and about the Atlantic row and how even a normal (?!) boy can achieve whatever they want. The kids'll love it!
Good luck for the final part and keep focusing on that end and dreaming of what the first proper meal are going to eat when you land.
Lots of love Sarah (and Dom in spirit who is at work and working his socks off as usual as it's January) xx
"Two blondes were driving along a road by a wheat field when they saw a blonde in the middle of the field rowing a row boat.
The driver blonde turned to her friend and said "You know - it's blondes like that that give us a bad name!"
To this, the other blonde replies "I know it, and if I knew how to swim, I'd go out there and drown her.""
Hi Mike and the Crew, promised that I'd send you a joke (sorry it's terrible)! Keep up the great work - wish that we could be with you to take over the oars for an hour or two, but you couldn't be doing a better job. See you very soon, Hope the weather takes care of you. Lots a love, Jamie and Freya
Mike & Crew, I really hope you are not getting disheartened about the news from La Mondiale, I know how much you wanted the record. You must remember they are a 14 man crew, so you are all doing the work of three people, which is quite frankly ridiculous and makes your achievement even more impressive. And following some terrible logic, if you could fill the boat with 14 of yourselves you could make the crossing in a little over 10 days, the return journey in 3 weeks........and maybe back again to give them a run into port on their first crossing. My point is, that this above all else gives a true reflection of not only your amazing endurance but relentless speed that you have attacked this challenge. You may not finish with the record you wanted but your supreme athletic ability is unquestionable. You are the dominant force in this race. Tom Room
Ben & Crew. Congratulation on your best 24 hour distance and good luck against the sculling record. Keep it up!! - See you soon, Mum & Dad
Hey guys, hope your morale is on the up, today (Friday) I was looking out of my office window at a dark and choppey River Mersey. Cigar fish, shopping trolleys and ferries passed by through the incessant rain. This weekend I am doing the tiles in the bathromm and digging the allotment. Perhaps you should look at your predicament and count your blessings. Jason Butler