<p><a href="http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Chris-Mason/100000940176518" target="_TOP" title="Chris Mason">Chris Mason</a> | <a href="http://en-gb.facebook.com/badges/" target="_TOP" title="Make your own badge!">Create your badge</a></p><p><font size="5" color="#ff0000">For the duration of the trip e-mail</font></p><p><font size="5" color="#ff0000">Chris at - <span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px">[email protected]</span></font> </p><p><a href="http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Chris-Mason/100000940176518" target="_TOP" title="Chris Mason"><img style="border-width: 0px" src="http://badge.facebook.com/badge/100000940176518.1176.1364053218.png" alt="" /></a><!-- Facebook Badge END --><br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/business/dashboard/" target="_TOP" title="Make your own badge!">Promote your Page too</a><!-- Facebook Badge END --> </p><p><font size="6" color="#ff0000">Keep up to date with our progress through my Facebook Page above!! Click on me and become a friend.</font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left">WE now have a major new supporter in the form of Hunters Estate Agents - Yeadon branch. David Metcalfe (MD Yeadon branch) in addition to making a substantial personal donation to the Teenage Cancer Trust, is happy to donate £50 from each ho</span><span style="display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left" class="text_exposed_show">use completion that goes through his branch for the forseeable future. Absolutely tremendous. Furthermore we may be welcoming the entire Hunters Group into our fund-raising campaign soon. This would be fanatstic, I will keep you all informed as things progress.</span> </font></p><p>A test to see if facebook/mogol rally link works </p><p><font style="font-size: medium" color="#ff0000">IMPORTANT - ALTERNATIVE JUST GIVING LINK</font><span style="font-size: medium"> </span></p><p><font size="3"><a href="http://www.justgiving.com/masons2mongolia2">http://www.justgiving.com/masons2mongolia2</a> </font></p><p><font size="2" color="#ff0000">Target total raised to £11000 on 30-06-12</font></p><p>Tom has run the London Marathon to rasie funds for the TCT. It was his 22nd birthday on the day of the Marathon. A much better birthday than his 21st when he was in the midst of fighting a very aggresive cancer, Well done Tom and not long to go now untill the Rally itself. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM from Dad, Mum, your sisters and all our family and friends. </p><p>Alison and the girls along with Jo Kuunal and Charles Frost have completed their parachute jumps from 10.000 feet, without making a big mess on the ground. </p><p>30-06-12. Up to today <font color="#ff0000">£9955</font> has been raised by online and offline donations. Thank you all.</p><p>RUNNING TOTALS</p><p>Chris and Blacksmiths Arms inc' calendar and raffle - fundraising<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>£2050 </p><p>Tom's London Marathon - fundraising<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>£1097</p><p>Alison's Parachute Jump - fundraising<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>£2000</p><p>Three Peaks of Yorkshire<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>£1768 so far (30-06-12)</p><p>Fund raising weekend in Northamptonshire and Lotus Childrens Hospital<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>£2240 (Elisabeth Frost)</p><p>Hunters Estate Agents<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>£200</p><p>Blackies Pub Quiz  03-05-12<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>£150</p><p>Easingwold School Prom and offline donation<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>£750 </p><p> </p><p>GRAND TOTAL<span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span><font color="#ff0000">£9955</font></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left">Rally tyres have arrived for the mongolia car. Many thanks to Peter MacDonald and Dave Whitsun at the Caldbeck Garage in Cumbria. We now can get started on putting all the new bits on the car that Champion/Ferodo and the Caldbeck Garage have given us.</span></p><p>Getting serious now, starting to think about how to get stuff and two big blokes into a very small car</p><p><img src="images/gallery09/7645/71722/400x400.jpeg" alt="" /> </p><p><img src="images/gallery09/7645/71723/400x400.jpeg" alt="" /> </p><p> </p><p><img src="images/gallery09/7645/71253/400x400.jpeg" alt="" /> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center">Hunters Estate Agents join our supporters!!</p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="images/gallery09/7645/71041/400x400.jpeg" alt="" /> </p><p>Girls and their certificates from para' jump at Bridlington.</p><p><img src="images/gallery09/7645/70970/400x400.jpeg" alt="" /> </p><p>Tom and his medal and a very proud Mum.</p><p><img src="images/gallery09/7645/70968/400x400.jpeg" alt="" /> </p><div class="aboveUnitContent" style="margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left"><div class="tlTxFe" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px">Our box of free car bits from Ferodo / Champion has arrived. Discs, pads, shoes, filters, belts, plugs, gasket sets and loads of stickers for the car, a fleece, two caps and two scarves. Top stuff!!<a style="cursor: pointer; color: #3b5998; text-decoration: none" rel="nofollow nofollow" href="masons2mongolia2" target="_blank">http://mongolrally12.theadventurists.com/masons2mongolia2</a> </div><div class="tlTxFe" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px"><img style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px" src="images/gallery09/7645/70904/400x400.jpeg" alt="" /> </div></div><p> </p><p>WE'RE BACK. Due to a bit of a medical mishap we had to pull out of the 2011 rally in January of this year. But not until we had raised over £8000 for our three charities.</p><p>Anyway it's back to square one now, this time raising money for the Teenage Cancer Trust. We've already started this years 'ALL TOOLED UP-AT PLAY 2012 calendar for launch at our local pub the Blacksmiths Arms on November 18th.</p><div style="text-align: center"><img src="images/gallery09/7645/65156/400x400.jpeg" alt="" /></div><p> </p><p>My girls are driving around in a SUZUKI SWIFT that's full of holes from the mods' I made to it, but we cannot use this car for this years rally as it will have gone over the age limit - BUMMER.</p><p>So we are now the proud owners of a Diahatsu Cuore. April 2003 reg 51k miles, full MOT all for the bargain price of £750.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Suspension testing at Pheasant, Keswick </p><p align="center"><img src="images/gallery09/7645/70537/400x400.jpeg" alt="" /></p><p>Could be a bit tight for one at 6'5" and the other at 6'7".</p>