Many of you are filling me in with your progress and time scales for completion of The Dozz-ville Challenge Award For The Discombulated.
Nineteen people have now completed - £19 to charities that mean a lot to us for varying reasons.
Possibly some of you know you put your name down and are trying to avoid doing it. Come along! Don't make me out you!
Our latest successful heroes!
Grannyjudes (triathlete)
Linnyloo (triathlete)
Tready (triathlete)
If I have missed your completion post let me know.
I must apologise for not yet completing, but with good reason. My parents have come to stay for a few days so I'm busy being a good girl 
Second Lieutenant I_will (classics div), I know I can always rely on you, I was not expecting you to be a dobber-outer. It's always heart-warming to have children caring for and entertaining their elders. I travel to Isengard to do my bit.
Thank you sir. I intend to make up for my slowness with style.
We await your write-up.
I won't disappoint. Los Parentos are here until Monday, so it will happen shortly afterwards. In fact look out on Tuesday.
There, I have said it. I have laid down the white glove to myself, and I've picked it up!!
Very worthy cause pops, psychological problems can be very difficult to treat.
Apologies if I've missed this, but is there a justgiving or suchlike page for donations? Can't do the challenge myself, but would like to add a donation, we need to look after our troops
We are all giving £1 to our favourite charities. In their shops, in collection boxes, over the internet, you choose and tell us who it is and why. (We are an imaginary army who chat together over Jammie Dodgers and Vimto, not an official one.)
Then next time I pass a suitable collecting tin, I shall drop something in it and hope to do the next "challenge" as well.
The troops reference was to poppypug's chosen charity - I have a nephew who's done a few stints in Afghanistan (only the safe bits as he told his mum !!) - and has thankfully come through safely. Sadly not the case for so many other families.
I'd be happy to join in with the jammy dodgers in the meantime but will swap the vimto for ginger beer though
Frances
Thank you.
Thanks Frances , that is very kind of you xxx
bless you folkieboater
I completed *a* triathlon this morning (not before breakfast, but before I would normally be up for brekkie on a Sunday), but only the bike ride meets the Discombulated requirements. However with the swim I did on Tuesday and now the bike ride over and done with the next run I do will count and I'll have completed! That will be tomorrow, or maybe Tuesday if I let these poor old legs have a rest tomorrow.
Run done
Bike ride this afternoon! (Just had a Magnum ice cream to boost my energy levels!)
My swim will be done in the next couple of days.
(I was hoping to do everything on one day but it hasn't worked out that way!)
Will pop into the local store where the Abbie's Fund collection box's are to pay my donation
oooooh good for you, in this weather a Magnum is practically MEDICINE !! 
They are the savers of life!
Hi PandaRunner, good to hear you're on the case. I sent £5 to the fund via paypal as my discombobulated charity. It must be so difficult to face such circumstances, anything that can assuage the pain, even if only to a tiny degree, is hopefully some solace in the long term.
WOW! A big THANK YOU Dozzer xx To be allowed to keep the memory alive of a baby is so important xx
Bike ride completed - the Magnum helped x
Keep it up! Nearly there!
The collection boxes are no longer in the store I visited today so I have made an on line donation. The lady who set up the charity has had another baby this week xx
How lovely for her and her family, the blessing of a child.
Oh ! Ours was Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice. Too many reasons why to list here.
I'll read about the charity as it's one I don't know.
Have done the swim this morning back stroke mostly and in the sea. First 10mins great fun & very relaxing, next 20 hard going. I'm not a water baby by any stretch of the imagination. The run this afternoon was great & tomorrow the cross trainer thing is booked & by that I mean my friend's garage gym (0ne cross trainer thing) is available. I may need to take a radio with me as she is refusing to spend 30mins watching me sweat. She says she'd lay down her life for me but she won't watch me sweat for that long.
How'd!
Slaving over a hot crossword and cleaning out the boot room. No marathon time for me.
Rest Bay Porthcawl. Not as warm as they are making out. Can't trust a weatherman.
Not the Times, far too strait laced for me. And, no,I didn't. 57 down? In the old game of hazard, a number (between five and nine) called before throwing the dice. 4 letters - M_I_ ? I bet nan or grandad could help us with that.
Like yeah!
Bet you looked it up! Or did you play with Nanna?
Zumba bumba!
Yeah, cos I'm a rebel. End of day Night pop and pups and bird
Having completed The Dozz-ville Challenge Award For The Discombobulated, am I now officially entitled to put (triathlete) (horticultural division) after my name!?
Oh yes. My chosen charity is Guide Dogs for the Blind - there are so many I could choose, but my father-in-law went completely blind very suddenly earlier this year and finding ways to help him continue to live a dignified and full life have become a priority for us.
Well done Second Lieutenant PilgrimPip (triathlete)! We'll ponder the horticultural bit - you usually have to be a long standing troop to get a div of your own and we may have a rather irate grower of chard and pumpkins if I just give it away! Well done with the triathlon!
Why thank you I am proud to be among such esteemed troops, albeit a newcomer. I would certainly not wish to put any noses out of joint, especially not one that values pumpkins and chard!
So how long have you older troops been engaged in this activity? I mean this particular cyber group? I definitely feel like an ignorant and anxious newbie....
We are a band of mighty brothers fighting alongside each other for around five months now - mainly against a woman in a pink top.
PS - I can't seem to find Chariots of Fireish - the closest was the Rowan Atkinson/Mr Bean rendition of Chariots of Fire. Another clue please?
Make such it's not redirecting you to Fire ish. It needs to be one word.
Ok found it. Very nice work! I'm guessing that, when you say (write) brothers, you mean brothers and sisters? And the pink top? Apart from mine?!
Oh yes, I just haven't made it to modern day PC levels yet. The pink top belongs to a lady on the C25K website. Not sure of her name other than 'nemesis'.
Charity run advice needed
Aim to run for a charity
5k charity run this Sunday
