No Great Shakes gets lifted onto a low loader lorry to be taken to Port Louis and Robin tries his hand at multi tasking with a live phone call back to the UK with Jimmy Carpenter, BBC Radio Leicester, belated Birthday wishes.
This time last week I was on a plane from Dubai heading home to the UK, after a nights sleep I was back in the studio of BBC radio Leicester talking with Jimmy Carpenter about the row and making music. Here’s the audio clip.
Robin’s Blog Eight part 2? Thank you for the music part two Insane in the membrane insane in the brain. Time for more of those block rockin beats. No music was a predicament I hadn’t thought of, before the row. We had music during the day from the Fusion stereo, we could blue tooth or…
Robin’s Blog Eight? Thank you for the music, the sea she tech no prisoners. When embarking on a challenge like this you need to ensure you have the right tech with you to hopefully cover most eventualities. The crew of ‘No Great Shakes’ Row the Indian Ocean 2018 were extremely fortunate with finding our…
Robin’s Blog Seven ‘Opportunities’ (let’s make lots of money) or ‘Sacrifice’ ? Did you know.. .. Its a human sign, when things go wrong… OK I may have adapted that for my own use. However, it’s a good starting point for this blog. Confused? If I was to ask you to describe the words ‘human…
Robin’s Blog Six? Apologies, while everyone probably thinks I am sat on the beach with beer in hand relaxing, eating and having a good time we have actually been rushing about the island trying to organise shipping of the boat etc. Don’t get me wrong the island is a beautiful tropical paradise, we are having…
Day Sixty-Two of Indian Ocean Row After a week of sun, which has been a really nice change from wearing full wet weather gear, last night saw the winds increase and with it the wave size. The good news was that it was all in the right direction, the bad news was that the waves…
Day Sixty of Indian Ocean Row There have been many times during this challenge where it has felt like we are enduring as oppose to enjoying: the last few days have seen that change. Prior to that we seemed to have been living in our wet weather gear constantly and we’ve been going into the…
Is Parkinson’s getting the better of me? At around week 6/7 I noticed things were becoming more difficult, getting dressed appeared to have become incredibly slow. I was beginning to have hand cramps resulting in trigger finger (locked fingers in my left hand), my joints ached and I guess you could say I felt knackered. …
Day Fifty-Eight of Indian Ocean Row Blog post from Robin Social post – Robin: The reason for my involvement in this challenge remains the same. I feel privileged to be given the opportunity of a lifetime to do something good, to make a statement and help a greater and bigger cause. That cause is Parkinson’s. …