I'm back and yes there has been an enormous gap since I last wrote. Very sadly my Mum died on 15th May after an enormously brave battle with cancer. She was first diagnosed 22 years ago and it was her determination and resilience that kept her fighting to the end. The last few weeks have been pretty strange, but things are gradually falling into place now and settling into a routine again and I am back to contemplating the mountain of work in front of me!
Having said that, the past week has seen some wonderful developments. The Braunton Explorer devices have been delivered, in part, which means that we’ve been able to get testing underway with 17 of the 30 devices. Parts of the devices are being shipped from China and were delayed by the earthquake, so the remainder will be a little longer in reaching us, not too long I hope. Testing has been interesting and certainly worthwhile; it’s highlighted some issues we hadn’t thought of before. The situation is positive though and I feel confident that we’ll be ready in time for the official launch, which will hopefully take place on 1st July (to be confirmed this week).
In addition to the Explorers coming online, I have been working long and hard on the content for the web-site so that I can give our extremely patient web-designer, Pete, something to work with before July. I can’t wait to see what it looks like and have amassed almost 80 pages of archive information text, with almost 250 images, to which will be added several video and audio clips – watch this space. Some have joked that I’ve more or less written a book!
In other areas of the project, Dave Edgcombe has kindly handled planning of a new information board for me. It is hoped that it will go in the centre of the village and represent a parish map; Dave has attended a parish council meeting on my behalf this evening. I am having some downloadable leaflets produced and will shortly get to grips with planning the launch event – all very exciting.
In the meantime though, I am training for the Race for Life, which takes place in Barnstaple on Sunday 15th June at 11.00am. I have been truly touched by the amount of sponsorship that people have given and thank everyone sincerely for donating so generously for Cancer Research. My Mum would have been very proud; all I have to do now is make it around the 5k (3.1 mile) course with as much style as I can muster!
...Nearly forgot, I am in June's edition of Devon Life in the article called 'What the Locals Say'. There's a great article there about Braunton and a fairly decent bit about me :)
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