Guide Dogs turns 90 this year.

Lots has changed in how the charity operates, but the mission, to open the door of independence for blind and visually impaired people remains today.

My husband and I are both guide dog owners but 90 miles is just TOO far for a guide dog to walk - so we’ll be using our long canes, commonly known as white sticks to navigate over three days from our starting point in Hillfields in Reading, which is where Guide Dogs’ HQ is. Wd’ll be stoping in Burcot, before setting off on Wednesday morning to Kiddlington. We’ll then walk from there on Thursday to Leamington Spa at the national Guide Dogs Centre. That’s not actually 90 miles, so we’ll be making up the remaining 18 miles on the Monday and Friday that week.

You can follow our journey at YouTube.com/BlindGirlVlogs - and YouTube subscribers are going to choose the name of the guide dog pup to be… should we pick a winner, or take nominations and votes? Head over to YouTube, sub and let me know.

Almost two million people in the UK are living with sight loss that has a significant impact on their daily lives. Of those, around 180,000 rarely leave their homes alone and lead lonely, isolated lives. Guide Dogs works for a world where people with sight loss are never left out of life, for a world where being blind or partially sighted is not what defines you. A world with enough support to make the challenges of sight loss no barrier to fulfilling hopes and dreams.