Hello my lovely readers
Where the majority of posts so far have referenced the fact that I'm in the sunshine, today's is about the opposite kind of weather - mostly snow. It's for my wonderful friend Kate, who not only puts up with but encourages my desire to do accessible adventurous things. I know I've joked for years about how I do wheelchair parkour (because seriously, life as a wheelchair user in society requires a lot of thinking about, and using, alternative routes to navigate our surroundings). But Kate does actual parkour - and has taught me I can do it too, as is shown in the picture below the poem of us doing our own version of wheelbarrows as a warm up.
Having cycled home to the UK from Bulgaria (with her then newly-adopted street dog Scout) in a heatwave two years ago, Kate is now hoping to trek across the Arctic by dogsled as part of Fjällräven Polar 2020. She needs votes to get there, and there are six days left, so this is my contribution to her campaign as thanks for all the confidence she's given me. Not least because I know how simultaneously thrilling and terrifying the snow can be, and have often used (admittedly hand-pulled) sleds/toboggans as a mode of transport in Canada with cousins when we wanted to have fun but knew my chair wouldn't cope with the conditions. Have a read and then watch her application video and vote for her on her page here.
6th December 2019
This poem is a plea for lovely Kate,
who's desperate to adventure to the Arctic.
Please help her get there before it's too late;
there's time for lots of votes if you are quick.
So much of her life revolves around dogs
(especially the adorable Scout,
who's thrived since their pan-European slog,
'tho this new trip of Kate's may make her pout.)
She's always ready with stalwart support
whatever obstacles there might be looming
and has a real kindness and rapport
whether with animals or fellow humans.
As she has helped along the dreams of others
it's time she got to live out one of hers.
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