Well I am humbled to be here tonight at Moira Kelly’s Farm out of Kilmore.\u00a0 Moira is the gaurdian of the two little girls Trishna and Krishna who have been surgically seperated in Melbourne at the Children’s Hospital. This farm is home for kids from all around the world who have needed life saving surgery that wasn’t available in their own homelands. Sam, Esther, Joe and I shared dinner with half a dozen of the young people that call this home, plus Sally and Ariana who both work here. This farm is made possible by Rotary and out the front of the farm there are both the Australian flag and the Rotary flag flying proudly. Today a team of 8 camels that set out from Alice springs over a year ago on a fundraising mission to raise money for Children’s First Foundation (Moira Kelly’s charity) arrived in Melbourne and over 100 people walked through the city with the camel crew to the Royal Childrens Hospital.<\/p>\n
My day was very challenging and exciting. while i was in the shower this morning at about 7am\u00a0a lady called Helen,\u00a0in the next cubicle started chatting to me, we ended up having a yarnabout what I was doing\u00a0and she very kindly made a $20 donation to ride4acure. I have met so many generous people on the ride. Reinforcing my belief that most\u00a0people are generous and good.\u00a0 \u00a0I left Seymour at 10am in the hope that the ‘downpour’ would ease, which it did briefly, but resumed with full force by 11ish. Torrential rain, gusty head winds, freezing cold temperatures. I had just over 50kms to travel today, and the last 20 of it took me nearly 2 hours it was so wet and windy. I was thoroughly drenched, my shoes gushing water each time i turned the pedals! I was soaked to the skin and freezing cold.\u00a0 This is so amazing after the weeks of extremely hot weather. Just yesterday was 40 degrees! Today Melbourne had a months rainfall in 24 hours!<\/p>\n
Esther\u00a0rejoined me today\u00a0driving from Wagga this morning after the Harden Races yesterday which was a great day\u00a0for ride4acure with a fundraiser happening throughout the day promoted by two jockeys Mark Webber and Ben Duggan (many thanks to both these very\u00a0generous men for their help in organising the raffles, signed sild of Nash Rawille framed), this raffle is going to run for a few more weeks and will now go onto\u00a0Gundagai\u00a0Rodeo next weekend with Esther\u00a0who will be riding there on Lena (Hannah’s barrel racing mare).<\/p>\n
Esther met up with me just as I rode into Broadford, that’s where I left the Hume Highway to head\u00a0toward Kilmore. We stopped at a gourmet pie shop called Molly Mae’s and I had a curry pie, lemon tart and a coffee! I was freezing,dripping wet\u00a0and ravenous!\u00a0 the ladies were terrific and let me sit inside to eat, they also made a donation to ride4acure. Esther had bought a couple of newspapers from both Wagga and Port Macquarie with great write ups about ride4aure andMark and Ben’s fundraising at\u00a0 the Harden Cup. Will let you know how much money was raised when we have a count up and do the banking tomorrow!<\/p>\n
Sam has gone back to work at Taradale where he is training horses. He was reluctant to go as he’s had a fantastic week with us, and I will dearly miss him. We get on really well and are kindred spirits in many ways. Joe will miss Sam’s monopoly playing skills, they’ve had a few marathon games that have gone on for more than 4 hours!<\/p>\n
My week is pretty full with -Monday I’m here in Kilmore, then Tuesday riding to Gisborne (which is where Hannah is buried),then Wednesday doing\u00a0 “Mela-What?” presentation at Staughton college (high school)\u00a0at Melton, then Thursday riding in very early to be at Peter Mac by 11am. Will ride into the city and down St Andrew’s place to arrive at Peter Mac by 11 (all going well!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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