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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #ff00ff;"><span style="font-size: small;">Soooo, I’ve signed up to take on the Petra Horse-Ride Challenge and right now I should be busy getting fit and toughening up particular parts of my anatomy, hmmm. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will be riding approximately 35km a day over a week across the Jordanian dessert (I actually have a mini phobia of sand!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will be super hot and the ponies quite different to the ones I’m used to riding<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>back home, the distances longer and terrain much tougher and totally different to the local woodland I’m used to in Kent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the end of each day my horse and I (and the other 15 or so fund raisers) will be camping out under the stars, so no hot baths or comfy beds to ease those aching limbs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oddly enough, I can’t wait!</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="color: #ff00ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">It will be a challenge but I’m so determined to raise as much money as I can for Marie Curie Cancer Care<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">Marie Curie is an amazing charity that provides nursing care, absolutely free, to people with terminal cancer and other illnesses, giving them the chance of dying at home with their families. Marie Curie also runs hospices across the UK, works to support bereaved families, and funds research into the treatment, causes and prevention of cancer. </span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #ff00ff; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">Please please dig deep and donate</span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">, this is such a worthy cause and one very close to my heart. </span></strong></span></p>
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