Glasgow Science Centre

HitchHop will get underway at Glasgow Science Centre on board the ...

With over 6 months of planning HitchHop is about to begin ….

HichHop will get underway at Glasgow Science Centre on board the Waverley at 10am – Please come and wave us off.  We will be there from 8.30am.

Both Brian and I were working this evening and it seems there is still lots to sort out till we meet at the train station at 7am tomorrow morning..!!

Today we announced on Facebook and Twitter are starting point and first lift.  HitchHop will begin on the Waverley en route to sunny Bute on board the Waverley, the world’s oldest sea-going paddle steamer.  We chose the Waverley as our starting point to raise the awareness of it.  The iconic day trips “doon the watter” could soon be a thing of the past as the Waverley faces a funding crisis.  Reported in the Evening Times a public appeal has been launched to raise £250,000 of funding.  Check out the article: http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/features/editor-s-picks/cash-call-for-the-waverley-1.1107594

Over the last few weeks of spreading the word of HitchHop, Facebook now has 121 HitchHop followers and Twitter 269 followers.  Over 25,000 people have read one of HitchHop wall postings!!  There are also about 60 readers of this blog.  Please keep spreading the word.  In the last few weeks, Good Luck messages have been coming in.  Thank you for everyone for these.  Thanks also for all of you who have sponsored HitchHop.  Please keep spreading the word: www.virginmoneygiving.com/team/HitchHop .  We still have quite a way to reach our target.

Thank you also for everyone who has been posting messages and articles on their websites.

And so, as the few minutes tick before midnight, when I will need to post this blog to keep in time with the blog calendar.  HitchHop is soon to begin.  Brian and I seemed to have done a crash course in learning how to use social media sites.  But also, mostly on computers.  Now we need to learn how to do it all on our phones.  We still are unsure of this, especially posting photos!

I still need to re-pack after unpacking it all and reducing everything I am taking (thanks Nic for this advice!).  We are both really tired, but now functioning on adrenaline and excitement.

If you are about tomorrow in Glasgow.  Please come down to the Science Centre from 8.30am to see us, it would be great to see you.

Otherwise, I look forward to writing a blog tomorrow.

Singapore

BGA International Conference on Foundations, innovations, observations, design and practice : proceedings of the international conference organised by British Geotechnical Association and held in Dundee, Scotland on 2-5th September 2003

The Glasgow Science Centre Tower project

Scotland

Museums in Glasgow, Glasgow Science Centre, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, People's Palace