You know how it is sometimes when you open your mouth without considering exactly what you might be committing yourself to, well once again this has happened to me. This time it's climbing Kilimanjaro with my brother and some chums. This all sounded so different after copious amounts of red wine over a long lunch but there you go, now I find myself popping out to do a quick ten miler before lunch (how times change).

As a group we are raising money through our respective pub groups by mugging our customers for an extra 50p and this is going to a couple of different charities, but donations from this page are going to a charity that is more personal to me so I hope you will all give a little/lot more than 50p.

I would like to thank you all in advance and ask you to forward this on to anyone you think might want to contribute. I will of course let you know if, sorry, when I make the summit, maybe a photo as proof! Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

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