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Dino’s on the Newsround site!

He wrote a press pack report about his abseil and it’s gone up today.

Read it here, shame there’s no facility to leave comments or rate it or something, that’d be nice. However, there is a space for comments here if you want to….

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Abseiling

Huge thanks to everyone who sponsored Dino for this - he’s raised over £300!

Holding £300 in their hands!

The abseil was yesterday - Sunday 26th April 2009 - and the weather was mixed with lots of sun and a few showers, some heavy.

Getting kitted up

Dino went up the rock (50ish feet up!) and he found it was so much higher than he thought it would be so he came back down again, very upset. But my brave lad went back up to try again and he got as far as leaning out and letting the rope take his full weight before he decided that actually he wasn’t going to cope with actually going down that way, so he climbed back down again.

He had a good go at it, and he’s very proud of himself for being brave and trying, even if he didn’t finish. We’re all very proud of him too, I hope you are.

This is as far as he got - but we’re still very proud of him!

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Abseiling for charity.

Dino will be doing an abseil towards the end of April, I know I’ve mentioned it on here before but he really wants to hit the £200 mark if he can.

The Justgiving link is on the right if you want to chip in.

Thanks.

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Dino’s fundraising.

You’ll see a link on the right hand side here for Dino’s JustGiving page. He’s doing an Abseil to raise money for the British Lung Foundation, in April, in South Wales.

He’s never abseiled before and although excited, he’s also a bit nervous!

A message from the lad:

Hello,

I’m Rowan and I’m 8 years old, I am abseiling at Dinas Rock in South Wales, on April 26th and I’d like you to sponsor me so I can raise some money for the British Lung Foundation. I am doing this because my Granny has Emphysema and I want to help her and other people with lung problems.

So please sponsor me now!

Thank you,
From,
Rowan.

If anyone feels like chipping in then please do, he’ll be chuffed to bits. Please ignore his target as set today, it’s likely to change as he reaches his first target of £100. He wants to see how much he can manage by the day of the Abseil.

Pics will be posted when he’s done it…..

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Holiday pics

The kids had a holiday in Wales with my parents and then I went and joined them for Dino’s birthday. Here are a few pics in case anyone still reads here any more…

Dino and Granddad went rockpooling…

And in the bucket there was a…..

Still alive and trying to get out - he released it carefully.

On a different day and a different beach - doing what kids should do with sand - and after spotting an EO sticker in a car near us in the car park we spent a lovely couple of hours with a bunch of home edders!