Final Blog...

I everyone... I again apologise for the belatedness of this bolg however it has been difficult to get some internet access and with stuff being pretty hectic now I am back in the real world!

The last day at Taunton Vale Golf Club in Somerset was a cracker...the weather was set fair and I managed to get 8 other people to join me for my final 18 holes! My flatmate Ashley came down from London and he brought with him his Two uncles, Pat and Tony. The others that joined me were Moggy, Matt, Mark, Andy, Pete Bettridge ( fat Matt's dad!). Jeremy Brown the local MP came to see me off and also joined by a photographer from the Taunton and Somerset Gazzette, the local rag! We got there early to have a bite to eat and get the photographs we wanted... I want to say a special thanks to Lizz Osmond, Tiffany Bell, Keira Mackey, Mum and Dennis, Karen and Ross Young and Alex Morrice for also joining me for lunch. It was nice to be able to relax and have a quick shandy before the golf as all the other rounds were, get there tee off as is were!

We started a 2.38 and Ahsley, my flatmate agreed, sometime ago, to caddy for me on my final round! I must admit that it took me a while to get used to that! everytime I played a shot I, out of habit, went straight to my back a picked it up! Also it did feel more like an enjoyable walk not having to carry for the first time in 36 days! The golf and the company wre great even if I was a little fed up with golf by then! After we finished we had a swift pint and some food and drove in to town for the evenings festivities! i was keen to have a beer or 7 as this was the first opportunity in a while to relax with knowledge that I didn't have to get up the following morning an chase a golf ball round a field! We had a lovely night and one that was followed by a headache the next morning! Always a good sign of a good night!

I am actually quite pleased that I have had a few days to process finishing the tour... i wanted to raise a lot more money however in the time I have had to reflect I have realised this is just one event! It's my first ever fundraising effort and one that If I did again I would have done may things differently...however If I had raised just £100 then that would have been £100 that the fund didn't have before. Just to let you all know that this certainly won't be the last fundraising event I organise! I have learnt from this experience that to raise lots of money one doesn't have to arrange a marathon tour like this one...I have enjoyed...maybe deep down I feel like I have deserved this trip! I know to many of you that will sound like a selfish comment an I apologise if it does! But last year really was the hardest year of my life... I spent the previous 24 years in blissful ignorance of the terrible things that there are in the world... some people discover this nastiness at and early age and some later on but I think I have learnt that it does happen to us all... Life is a storm my friends...one day you be basking in the sunshine feeling as happy as could be...and another day you will be hiding away under a rock wishing for the moment to pass...but It's when that storm attacks that defines who you are...the way you react, the way you fight, the way you smile through it...you can let it get to you and complain that it's not fair...and it probably isn't fair but, in the words of Ole Blue eyes, That's Life...and I'm sure everyone one of you can remeber a time that has been crappy? but I'm also sure that you will be able to remeber a time that has made you smile like a pup with two tails! A tear is currently running down my face... I'm not sure why...I thnik I am just remebering the smiley times that I have endured since my recovery...My brother's wedding to the lovely Charlotte was one of the nicest days of my life and I hope one day to be there one day when I meet the right person..who knows I might already have done. My Mother's wedding to Dennis... some people ask me how I feel about it...My only response could possibly be, If they are happy, then I am happy.

It is strange not having Dad around any more...I certainly miss his him. There were times when i was on my own on the golf course and would just chat away to myself a joke that I remember him telling, he certainly new a lot...I just wish I could remember them all. There are of course smaller more seemingly less important occurences since my recovery... The mindless argurments I have with my Mum...If they didn't happen then it wouldn't be the same! The constant kindness that I see people give to one another everyday...all the people that have helped me along the way...It amazes me what wonderful people I know and have met...I can be impatient, argumentative, selfish, boring, unresponsible, unkind, rude...But I think we can all be at sometime...but as I said in the speech I made at my Father David's funeral...those are the things that make us who we are...people don't remeber the good stuff...people can do 99 good things but will always be remembered for the 1 bad thing they may do! It's these idiosyncracies that make us who we are. And all my friends and family are good people! The people I have made friends with over the last 36 days are good people...for all my faults I do seem to attract good, loving, caring people! So thank you to you all for your support...

The whole crying thing wouldn't be so bad appart from the fact that I am currently in Surbiton Public Library making a scene...Me a scene...never!

I apologise for the slightly melancholy climate to this blog however, I have not pre written this...as I have not with all my blogs (hence spelling msitakes!)...it has just come out and wanted to share my thoughts with you all!

So thank you all for your support and reading these blogs... I feel pleased, not ecstatic, but pleased with my self for doing this tour...I now feel slightly unsettled and questioning, What is next? I think we all do that for time to time and I just hope I make the right decisions!

So everyone thanks again and remember...When the storms hits... which it will... BE STRONG, STUBBORN and POSITIVE.

So in the words of a famous cartoon character I think... That's all folks....

All my Love...

Will xx

35 down and 1 to go...

Hello everyone...I have just finished my 35th Golf course in Gloucestershire. Was a lovely course and very intresting in that the fairwasy are all built in corn feilds so that was nice! The golf isn't very good at the moment...very tired and not thinking about evrey shot like I should be! Tomrrow is the last day so I am going to get well rested tonight and put in a big shift tomorrow! The shots are there i just have to find them? I think the secret lies with Charlotte...haha.

I am back at my Mother's house in Taunton now and very relieved that I only have one more sleep until I can have a lie in ansd I don't have to get up and wander 4 miles round a golf course every day! I have really enjoyed it and it will something, Leukaemia, that I will never forget! I am going to keep this one short because my final blog, I imagine will be a long one!

I hope whoever has been reading all this has enjoyed it and hope you will look forward to my final blog which I hope will be titled...I thrashed the pants off Matty!!!!!

Lots of love and smooches to you all

Speak to you all tomorrow!

Legs, ankles, back, face, nose, knee caps and feet all HURT!

Hi everyone...sorry I havn't been updating to 0ften it has been hard to get to a internet computer and I have been fairly short of time in the last few days as I have been teeing off a bit later...this should however have given me more time in the morning I hear you say!you are right but I am really starting to feel the pinch! Getting up in the morning is very hard work as my eyes feel like they have leadweights on them! Anyhoo... I will soldier on best I can!

Since I last spoke to you I have been to Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Oxfordshire...and whatever I was doing there I wasn't playing golf!! Don't get me wrong, I had a golf ball and a golf club (or whacker as I'm starting to call it!) I was standing in a field with Sandy scratchpatch and Susie Downslope (people we met along the way!) ...but my ability to hit a ball has dissapeared! With hindsight I actually am playing better than I was at the beginning of the tour but having gone through a good vain of form these things happen!I just hope I can put in at least one good round before the tour is out!

There is actually only 3 days left! I can't believe it...it really has gone so fast, especially the last week! I need to a big thanks to some people who I have been with over the last few days................................

Thanks to Gus and Moggy for not joining me in the Boff Tank joining me over the weekend at Hawstone Park and Burghill Valley...To Christian and Matt for playing (and Brethren Tom for walking) the Belfry with me...To John and Jackie in Cheltenham for putting me, Gus and Moggy up when they already had a dinner party to host! Thanks to Katy for taking us off John and Jackie's hands and showing us J's (the smallest nightclub in the world!!! For those of you that have been to my Mother's house....they are about the same size!!! Thanks again to Lynne and Mac for putting me up...again! Thanks to Chris Pennel and Will Bowley for joining me at the Worcester Golf and Country Club on Monday...they both play for the Worcester Warriors and Chris (currently recovering from his ACL (Arterial Cruciate Ligament) surgery...played on one leg!!!amazing! Both nice fella's and I think they are going to try and sort out a signed Warriors shirt for my auction! Thanks to Suzanne Simms and Jane Bidding...two ladies I played with yesterday in Oxfordshire..I take back all the backhanded comments regarding Golfers from the fairer sex as these two were very good golfers and very nice with it! Jane actually plays off 1 or 2 and is playing a comp in Enmore in August so I offered my services as a caddy and she accepted so that will be fun! All I need to do is grow a moustache, put some weight on and get a boiler suit! To Katy (KAT) Malseed in Oxford...I got in touch with her very late on wednesday and she very happily put me up in Hertford College Oxford...didn't think they existed but there are actually students that sit around talking about Mr Obama using all sorts of long a fancy words like "conservative" and"elixir"...I shouldn't laugh but for those of us that went to a stupid persons university and wonder what it's like to be at Oxford...there it is! I am of course joking...Kat my little Cousin once removed I think is lovely! I havn't seen her for some time and she has turned into a very outgoing and charming tequila drinking person (the best bit..she likes tequila!!!)! I have offered her a place to stay in Surbiton should she and her friends want to go out in Laaaandan! So I look forward to repaying the favour...

I am currently in Fleet about to start getting ready for day 34 in Berkshire...I was due to be playing on my own today however Steve Gotting has a golfer friend called Derek Olsen who by amazing coincidence is also playing at East Berks today so I will rock up a bit early and see if i can join them!

For those of you that worry...Mum and Johanna mainly...The title of blog isn't that true...trying to recreate dad's (OBSG).............. Over Active Bull Shit Gland! I'm fine a little tired but nothing that a long lay in won't fix!

Bakc to the BT!

Lots of Love

wilberxx

Someone has read this blog in Catania...

Can you believe it...it really is the world wide web. Most of the destinations I can account for but that one... thanks for all spreading the word. Keep doing it though I'm still working hard so keep spreading hard!!! I want someone in India to read it!

Cheers

Getting Brocton Halled...

Hello everyone...me again!

Just played my Staffordshire leg today at Brocton Hall Golf Club. Today I had the pleasure of some company in the form of Mac Jinks who I satyed with last night and I am also staying with tonight!!! Lynn and Mac have been great in making me feel very at home and relaxed..we have just had some lovely fish and chips from Tamworth and are now going to watch some easy watching television!

The golf is getting hard now..the last few days had been really hard work. Most probably because I have not been playing so well but i have felt very tired and lethargic! I personally blame too much sleep on that I have been to bed before midnight for the last three nights,which for anybody that knows me is very unusual! So tonight I'm gonna get wasted!!!! only joking I think I'm playing golf in the morning... No all that will have to wait until the end ro maybe KLR on thursday!!!! I do miss Surbiton you know...never thought I'd say that but I do...and most of all I miss my Piano!!! I haven't touched a piano in a month now and even when I asked at the hotel I stayed in on wednesday if I could tinckle their ivories I think they thought I was joking!!!what do you do to taken seriously Oop Naarf!

Anyway that is soon to be corrected as I only have 8 more golf courses to play, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset!....and breath...

I am being joined by Moggy and Gus tomorrow at Hawkstone Park in Shropshire and then going to visit the Gottings in Gloucestershire, that's the John and Jackie variety of Gottings! Let's hope the golf is a bit more fruitful tomorrow! I am getting an early night as Gus and Moggy have got a date with and ass whipper tomorrow!...(that's me trying to be hip and saying that I'm going to beat them!) forgot I'm not 12 anymore. Take care everyone!!!!


Wilberxx

A selection..these range from Beds to Cheshire and all that is in between...

Lanacashire and Cheshire...

Hello everybody...I am currently in Tamworth near Birmingham staying with Mac and Lynn and just had a lovely jacket potato with salad! I have been playing in the North West for the last few days...firstly in Preston and then in peover Golf Club in Cheshire. they were both exellent courses however I feel suited more to someone that knows the course. A lot of the tee shots had dog legs and it wasn't until one reached their ball that I new where I was going! A little frustrating when they pay so much deatil to signs saying "please be careful when crossing bridge?" I think that order is fairly self explanatory however not knowing where to hit your ball is slightly more important! I played both days on my own which if I'm honest is getting a little tiring...It is hard to motivate yourself when its just me so I am gratful to Mac who is going to play with me tomorrow and then Gus and Moggy are going to join me for Shropshire and Herefordshire which is good. They are both old college chums so will be good to have their company!

I want to say a massive thanks to Kim Pugh who is the Marketing Assistant for English Lakes Hotels...she has put me up for 3 nights in two of ELH's hotels...she has been great and supportive which was a great pleasure when otyher than her I didn't know anybody from the Lake District! So thanks Kim. Also one more thing about Kim is that she has also lost two people to Leukaemia quite recently and some of her friends are cycling from Trafalgar Square in London to Kendal..where I believe the mint cake is from?... to raise money. I don't know the exact details but when I do I will post them on here. I would love to join them in cycling but I think they leave before the end of my golf tour so I wish them all the luck in the world for that!

The weather has still been very fair..today was sunny with cloudy patches but I'm fully aware that there are still 9 days of golf left so enough time to get the waterproofs out again!

I will now post some more photos...

I'm not sure where I am staying tomorrow night as i am playing in Shorpshire on saturday...I think the nature of my trip requires that I spend at least one night in my car!!! so it might be a crazy night in for Wilber on friday night!!!

Hope you like the pics!

Willx