Be The Jam

Date 30th April

Stage Planning Expedition

Location Oxford

Weather Lovely sunny day (beginning to like this global warming thing)

Health Good (missing one finger nail, knee still weak from skiing injury)

Fitness Poor (resting heart rate around 60 BPM)

Advertising revenue roughly £2.88 - beginning to think this might not be the best way of generating revenue.

Readership 3659 unique visitors  in April, up from 3063 in March

Prospect of Mission Improbable happening Fair

Todays "genius" idea re-opened the Be The Jam shop 

Having just read David Hempleman - Adams book, Walking On Thin Ice, I thought I might copy his technique of starting each entry with a situation report. Sadly at the moment there isn't anything exciting to report. unlike Hempleman - Adams I'm not battling against the elements at -55 degrees, falling into the sea, or running the risk of starvation / becoming lunch for a polar bear. The only struggle in my life right now is fundraising. To that end there is nothing to report at the moment save to say that the carrot of significant financial backing is once again being dangled tantalisingly close.

I am becoming increasingly tempted by the idea of working my passage across to the Caribbean on a yacht and then flying across to South America from there. That way I might even earn some money on the journey over rather than just spending it so I am doing a bit of online research about the feasibility of this at the moment. It seems that the best time to do this is the autumn when yachts are being moved from the Med to the Caribbean for the winter and my best chance at getting a paid position would be to work as a chef. With this in mind I'm now going to call about a job in a very nice reastaurant not so far from Oxford.

In a blatant attempt to get at your hard earned I have gone a bit commercial and re-opened the be the jam shop. It is not much to look at at the moment but you can get your world exclusive Be The Jam mugs, woo hoo hold the front page and all that. To visit the shop simply click on the picture of the T shirt over on the navigation bar to the left. Why am I using a skiing t shirt you might well ask. Well, I pressed lots of buttons, furrowed my brow, asked it to use the picture of the mug and in the end the great got of the interweb would only allow me to use the picture of the T shirt. I have no idea why not. Next time I find myself with a priest of the new religion, probably my mate Jamie who is a crash bang wallop wizard with computers, I'll try to fix this. In the mean time why don't you go and have a nice cup of tea, I expect it would taste nicer from a loverly new mug.

Ha! Now you can click on the mug and get to the shop. I think I have figured out how to beat the system. Mwa ha ha, soon the internet will be at my feet and then I shall be unstopable. Smithers, release the flying monkeys.