Fundraising progress, climb schedule and nicknames

SPONSORSHIP
This is an update of our current fund raising position:
The Shooting Star Children's Hospice: £29,913.  www.shootingstar.co.uk
Malaika-kids: building an orphanage in Tanzania: ~£ 1,500.  www.malaika-kids.co.uk
 Omwabini: "rescue steps" in Swahili, helping Kenyan orphans:: ~$21,000. www.omwabini-rescuesteps.org
Between six of us this is a tremendous effort and our extreme grateful thanks to all of you that have sponsored us to date and for your many imaginative campaigns to raise funds for the very worthy causes.

CLIMB SCHEDULE
In order to keep track of our whereabouts on the mountain we publish the schedule below:

Tuesday 7th April: flight to Africa via Amsterdam
Wednesday 8th, at leisure in Moshi
Thursday 9th, Trek day 1, Marangu to Mandara
Good Friday 10th, trek day 2, Mandara to Horombo
Saturday 11th - frAction man's birthday- trek day 3, acclimatisation day at Horombo
Easter Sunday, 12th, trek day 4, Horombo to Kibo
Easter Monday, 13th, Trek day 5, Kibo to Gilman Point  (for sunrise) and on to Uhuru Peak then back down to Horombo
Tuesday 14th, trek day 6, Horombo to Marangu
Wednesday & Thursday, 15th & 16th,  at leisure including safari on Wednesday and a well earned dip in the hotel pool
Friday 17th, at leisure in Moshi with flight home in evening
Saturday 18th, 13:50: arrive Heathrow T4

NICK NAMES
Each of us as 'earned' a nickname through reputation so we thought we should share them with you.
*Dalton = Major Major Major = after the character in the book 'Catch 22' who keeps increasing targets ("one last flying mission....") - refers to his constant increasing of the fundraising target for the team!
*Darren = Hair Flick = after the character Herr Flick from 'Allo 'Allo but, after a training weekend in the Lake District where it was very windy, changed the name slightly.
*Joycey = Sicknote = always getting injured as he's also training hard to run the London Marathon in aid of The Shooting Star Children's Hospice, just eight days after returning from Africa.
*Mike = Blakey = caught in a photo recently being the identical image of Inspector Blakey from 'On The Buses'.
*Phil = The Surgeon = his son bought him a swiss-style army knife which includes an instrument which would probably enable him to do neurosurgery.
*Nick (Paul nick)  = frAction man = into his detail! Has a spreadsheet which records in percentages how far he is with packing his kit, e.g. 95% means that he has the item but has not yet packed it!

Now you can follow the team over the next couple of weeks and see if they live up to their nicknames.