Fully recovered from Morocco now. Still slightly bearded, but I might keep it now in preparation for the expedition - it takes me a long time to grow beards and it is pretty patchy at best - still, it makes me look slightly more like an explorer for the photographs!!
The reason for a lack of communications is that there is so much happening, but so much of it is still up in the air. It's hard to write about something that's not quite tangible yet.
I postponed our May team training time as I had a flurry of sponsor meetings that need to take priority - we need to secure funding first - I could have the best team in the world but nowhere to go! I had a day with the Royal Marines planned for a regular "Bootneck Beasting", with a day on Dartmoor having an extra beasting from Chris McLeod, an ex Royal Marine chum of mine (Chris and I, with Phil Ashby, were the team that set the record for the Magnetic North Pole). And then the final day of our 3-day session was to be at Manchester Metropolitan University with Steve Hayes (PhD, BSc(Hons), CText FTI, FHEA Principal Lecturer Dept. of Clothing Design & Technology) for some anthropometric data capturing!! Basically, Steve and his team will be using a 3-D scanner to make avatars of us all (frightening) so that we can have phenomenal tailored made expedition clothes. This level of detail and science is just amazing - it will include heat signatures and sweating profiles to enable Steve to design clothing that exactly aligns with our individual needs - amazing.
However, we did not do all that last week. I postponed it as I said, but we will do both and report back soon!
And just to let you know, the sponsor meetings are going well. It is looking good, but we are not home and dry quite yet!! But we do have an excellent office and London HQ. The historic and wonderful Naval & Military Club, known as the In & Out, in St James Square, is now our home - a smart office and a great venue. History tells us that it was in the In & Out's very corridors and rooms that Captain Robert Falcon Scott planned much of his trip South - what a great connection! Hurrah
Speak soon.
Yours aye
Manley
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