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The Team Honk baton arrived this weekend, which resulted in a rather busy weekend for the girls and I.  When Spencer, from adadcalledspen, and myself first sat down to discuss the team honk relay [what seems like months ago] we had two clear aims:

1. Involve as many people as we could
2. Have lots of fun and try to do things a bit different.

We also decided the theme for our leg of the relay would be Planes, Trains and auto mobiles.

teamhonk barnsley

With this in mind Spencer created the rather fantastic mystery tour of Barnsley and his wish came true as he achieved his flotilla of mobility scooters.  Hats off to you Spencer, I said aim big and you certainly achieved an amazing day!

The girls were keen to be involved and could not wait to get ready

dressed and ready to gothe baton meets my eldest

Saturday my aim was to show it didn't matter how young you are you can still be involved.  The girls took part in a sponsored slide a thon.  How many times could we ride the rainbow slide at Playmania in 30 minutes?

down the slideoff we go

We managed 22 times, which I think is quite an achievement given I had to carry my youngest up the ramp and she kept wanting to stop to collect balls on her way up.  My eldest kept stopping for a drink too, well it is thirsty work.

The girls enjoyed themselves, and took a short nap at Playmania.

youngest rides a horseyoungest and the baton take a nap


In keeping with our theme we visited the trains!

teamhonk visits trains

Before taking the baton on a 3 mile walk.  The girls did really well.

youngest on walkeldest on walk

Our dog got involved too

dog joins in team honk

The final part of the challenge for the girls was to do a 5m swim each.  The other children in the girls class got involved too and we all did a 5m relay, so the baton swam 25m in total!

completed the swimteam honk baton pool side

 I think it was only fair that I then treated the girls.  They had done rather a lot!

well deserved ice cream

Sunday was the handover day as we handed over to team honk Hull.  In keeping with our theme our final component was Planes!

In the plane ready to go

The weather was very grey and there was quite a lot of wind around, but we took a brief opportunity of a break in the weather and set off from York gliding club.

All aboard team honk

After an almost sideways landing at Hull Aero club, due to the very strong cross winds, we did a quick handover and decided to fly back again before the weather really turned nasty.

Handover for team honk Hull

It has been such an amazing and busy weekend.  I would like to say thank you to ever one who has helped and to everyone who has sponsored us, it means a lot!  The girl,s its fair to say, are two tired little honkers!

up up and away

This day I love tired little honkers!
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Last year a group of bloggers formed #Teamhonk.  They travelled to Ghana to see the wonderful work for Comic Relief, you can see the post card I was sent here.  This year Team Honk are back and they need our help.  Yes, you and me and everyone.  

For Sport Relief 2014, Team Honk are organising a relay from John O'Groats to Lands End.  They need our help.  The Yorkshire part of the relay takes place on February 28th and ends on March 2nd.  We pick up the Baton from the Derby team and hand over to the Hull team.  [for full relay details see here].  Each part of the relay has its own Facebook group, where you can join to keep up to date.  If on twitter you can follow via @team_honk.  

Ok so what do we need:

1. Help promoting the relay itself.  Please help spread the word.  Let's help to smash the amount raised from last year.

2. Please sponsor our team, every little really does make a difference.  You can donate via text too,Text HONK to 70005 and donate £5 to Sport Relief.   

3.  Take part in the relay!

Whilst I don't know the ins and outs of all the other sections of the relay, the Sheffield - Hull section looks like this [at the moment]

On Friday 28th February Spencer [adadcalledspen] and myself will be taking the baton on a magical mystery tour of Barnsley.  Spencer has written a brilliant post here which summarises everything.

Saturday 1st March sees more fun and antics as we aim to raise as much money as possible for Sport relief.  
Sunday 2nd March I will be flying the baton over to Hull, ready for all the fun the Hull team have planned!

Team Honk 2014 blogger Relay


Please do get involved and help us to raise as much as we can.  I shall keep you updated as our plans unfold.

Further Information

The first ever Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Games take place from Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd March 2014. The public can join the fun and games by running, swimming or cycling their way to raising cash at over a thousand venues around the country, including the landmark events at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

As one of the biggest fund raising events, Sport Relief brings the entire nation together to get active raise cash and change lives. The money raised by the public is spent by Comic Relief to help transform the lives of some of the poorest and most disadvantaged people both at home in the UK and across the world.
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