Brown Cow is on the banks of the River Aire. To get to the pub, you have to cross the 17th century Ireland bridge which is a Grade ll listed structure. The Brown Cow is situated on the west bank of the River Aire. Although the pub doesn't seem that old, it was once used as the courtroom and even after a dedicated courtroom was built, cases were still occasionally heard at the Brown Cow.

This is the second pub on the 3 legged pub crawl. The teams will walk over Ireland Bridge, which has a narrow footpath and the teams will have to be careful with the traffic.

Posters have been made and will be put up in the pubs this week,hopefully we will get more teams wanting to take part in our fund raiser, this will be fantastic as not only will we raise more money...but what a great way to raise awareness! Everyone who is participating,sponsoring and just generally supporting. I thank you very much!

I hope to see you dressed up in the Old White Horse at 7.00pm on Friday Aug 26th.

Tracy

Pubs on the pub crawl route

Over the next week, I am wherever possible going to put a photo of the pubs taking part in the pub crawl and some history up.

Our meeting and kick-off pub on the pub crawl is the Old White Horse Inn ( pictured )

The Old White Horse Inn is one of the oldest buildings still in use in the town. It was originally constructed as a coaching inn in the mid-seventeenth century, strategically positioned with Ireland Bridge on the one side and the Parish church on the other. The building is an English Grade II listed building and has a significant amount of coaching inn infrastructure surviving including a stable, barn and two coach entrances which are located around an inner courtyard. On each side of the gable are stone lanterns that denote the former owners Order of Knights of St John of Jerusalem. There is evidence that a hostelry has been on the site since 1379.Bingley is a very old market town and appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Bingheleia".

Next time....The Brown Cow on the opposite side of Ireland bridge!

Happy Weekend everybody!

Hello everyone! hope you are all enjoying your weekend so far ( despite the weather ).

Before I go any further....I want to let you all know I have updated the BBQ money raised total to £436.10!!...we had a couple of late donations...details of these will follow shortly on the supporters page :)

We are hoping in the next week to have a total money accumulator working next to the donate button.

I have updated the upcoming events page with details of the fancy dress 3 legged pub crawl. Please make sure you have a read, especially if you are taking part :)

I want to shout-out a big thank you to all the pubs who are participating in the most worthy fund-raiser for my chosen charities in our 12 month fund-raising challenge :) I know it is going to be great fun and I hope you all enjoy yourselves! Please respect other customers in the pubs on route!

A massive thank you to all the pubs/bars that have kindly donated a raffle prize, it's very generous of you. Most have also given us permission to sell raffle tickets on the night to the other customers. Also to the pubs who are offering a free orange cordial,we thank you and recognize the promotion of sensible drinking.

The pubs/bars participating and route order are The Old White Horse,The Brown Cow,The Fleece,The Con Club,The Midland,The Suburban Bar,The Foundry Hill,The Myrtle Grove and Ferrands Arms

Again....check out the upcoming page for Pub Crawl details. Thank you again to everyone who is taking part, and I hope we all have a great night of fun.

Busily in the background,I am working on the E bay shop and again hope to have the link working this coming week...I hope you will all take time to have a look.

I hope you will take a few moments to share the blog with your friends and ask them to have a read and share with their friends too. It would mean a lot if you could do this, hopefully anybody starting or going through any treatments for cancer will be able to take something positive from the blog. Life is for living not existing :)

Thank you

Tracy

War on Cancer BBQ a rip roaring success!

What a fantastic success the BBQ was. A whopping £436.10 was raised on the day/night!

I want to first thank my sister Caroline for turning her annual BBQ into a fund raiser for War on Cancer's Mt.Kilimanjaro 2012 climb for cancer. A massive thank you to everyone who donated to the day, whether it be food, gifts for the raffle and tombola or their time to attend.

Big thanks you's go out to Jeannie for her famous curry and rice...gone in a flash again this year! Joanne for flipping the burgers and sizzling the sausages. To Jeannie and Jackie for cooking the vegetarian chilli and to everyone else who donated food to the BBQ!

Big thank you to Becky ( Harry's mum ) for donating 2 litres of rasberry vodka to the cocktail bar....which were made into the now famous ( round our parts ) Frazzleberry and Blue Lesbian cocktails. A big thank you to my great niece Rayne and her helpers for running the tombola and sorting out the raffle.

And last but no way least.....everyone who attended and made the day/night a resounding success! Thank you for been generous and good sports buying cocktails at the bar ( ran by me ), spending money on tickets for the tombola and raffles and donating the gifts back!

It was a perfect day, a beautiful sunny day spent with old and new friends laughing and enjoying each others company and raising lots of money for my two chosen charities!

An added bonus for me? my sister in law Angela stopped by for a few hours on her way home back up to Barrow and my brother Neil came up from Plymouth to spend the weekend with us and support the cause! was a great day for sure.

Check out the gallery....photos from the event have been loaded! photos taken by Sarah, Jeannie & Jackie...thank you girls!

Thank you for reading...until next time!

Tracy

All preparations under way for Charity BBQ Sat 30th July.

Well it seems to have taken forever to get here, but now we launch 12 months of fund-raising for my two chosen charities which ultimately finishes with the actual climbing of Mt.Kilimanjaro Sept 2012. My hope is to raise a mountain of money for Walk the Walk Breast Cancer and Clic Sargent Children's cancer charities.

I hope that as well has raising money, we will raise awareness and everyone who takes part or attends an event will have very happy memories of laughing and having fun! :) My motto for the year is fun.fun.fun!!

The first of the events is tomorrow..... it's finally arrived...The Pink Palace BBQ extravaganza! Not only will there be a BBQ going, curry,rice,chilli and lots more will be available. Of course you've heard about the cocktail bar lol!....the drinks menu is set.....7 cocktails and 3 shots! There is a raffle,a tombola and stuff for the kids. Everyone is looking forward to it.

We are out to have fun and make everyone smile.....the start of the BBQ for everyone is a walk down the "Pink Carpet" and a photo taken!.....Sarah Victoria Searle is going to be the official photographer for the event...so everyone is going to be snapped by the Papparazzi lol!!!!

Hopefully we have something for everyone and we are hoping to raise a load of cash tomorrow to kick of the campaign in style.

So a big thank you to my sister Caroline for turning her annual BBQ into a fund-raising event for my Mt.Kilimanjaro challenge.

So in the next few days photos will be uploaded to the gallery....keep an eye out for them.

Thank you for reading. Enjoy your weekend whatever you get up to.

Tracy.

Mt.Kilimanjaro climb 2012 challenge team named!

Yes folks we are....drumroll.......The Kilimanjaro Klingon's!! ta-da!!

The boys will be fine, not so sure how we girls will get on not shaving the goatee off first thing in the morning ;) Whoever told us that the leading brand of face cream was good for wrinkle lines was obviously fibbing!! Frown lines to the side....we The Kilimanjaro Klingon's are looking forward to the next 12 months of fun fund-raisers...we really do want to raise cancer awareness a mountain of money for climbing a mountain :). The theme of the next 12 month's is fun,fun,fun!! the money raised will go hand in hand with us all having fun!

We have yet to get out and do a hill climbing session, but a few of us will try and organize one when we are at the charity BBQ this weekend. For those of you who have gathered items to donate, we will be in contact shortly and arrange to pick up.

More information will be put up on the upcoming events page after the BBQ regarding the 3 legged fancy dress pub crawl. I will say the date is set and the pub crawl will set off from The Old White Horse at 7.30pm....meeting time is 7.00pm. So pls get yourself a partner, a fancy dress outfit and come join the fun! We will be ending the pub crawl in the Ferrands Arms and hope that you will stay out and enjoy the rest of the night with us :)

Thank you all for reading and showing your support!

Tracy

Happy Monday :)

Well we are building up to the BBQ this Saturday ( keeping fingers crossed for good weather )We will be off preparing our own bits. I have sorted out my cocktail list as I said, can't wait to get behind the bar now lol!

It's going to be a lot of fun and of course photo's will be taken and posted of the event. We hopefully will raise a few pounds and start off our fund-raising year with a bang :) Everyone has to wear something pink...doesn't matter if it's a charity band or a piece of clothing....failure to do so will result in a little fine!!....People you have been warned!

This week ( or the rest of it ),my plan is to hit the gym around 07.30am. I am trying to step it up a bit, not too much so I can't keep it up or even worse it knocks me back and I can't workout... but it's only through hard work we can improve ourselves,so I will be pushing myself sensibly to make sure I achieve my challenge of reaching the summit of Mt.Kilimanjaro.

After the BBQ, we will complete our travels around the pubs in Bingley to confirm the rest of the pub crawl. Posters will be put in all the participating pubs and of course on-line. Live local?.. get yourself a partner and a fancy dress outfit and get out there with us!.It will be a great night of fun that will raise awareness and hopefully lots of money for the cause .Hope to see you all there!

A big thank you to the participating pubs for offering free soft drinks to those taking part and donating a gift to the raffle. It is very much appreciated.

Anybody who is coming to the BBQ....PM me and I will give you directions :)

Enjoy your day, I will blog later in the week, hopefully it will be to launch the shop and the tab where you can comment and interact with me!

Tracy