Making Headlines

My profile has made it into Rendezvous, sounds like a dating site, but it's not - It's the micro social media site for the volunteers at the Grand de Depart, the UK part of the Tour de France.  The Team have put it up, with a headliner banner!

A few of my friends were Games-maker's on the Social Media team for the London Games 2012, but it looks like the digital media team is being headed up, in the North!   I say that with a smile, and a wink, as there has been much banter about Yorkshire v Southerners and the uniforms.  The Grande Depart, the first three days of the Tour de France, is a great show case for the whole of Britain,  all of it's fantastic in it's own way.

It doesn't look as if volunteers are working in the back room jobs, only for those facing the public!  Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.  I only say this because, the Social Media Team it is something I would have liked to have got into..  A voluntary foot in the door, of an area that fascinates me, in so many ways, and it's a job you should be able to do remotely!

So, I'm waiting to find out exactly what I will be doing, on Monday the 7th the third day of the Tour in Britian, Stage 3, sector 6.  That's twelve miles area from around Olympic Park towards The Island.  Ee-by-gum, I better explain, The Island is the what cyclist's in London, call Canary Wharf!

I will be watching glued to the big screens, on the first day, and during the second taking a sneaky look at my social feeds on my phone,  as Sunday, I'm going to an important family do..  I have to be there, I'm the Godmother!   Guess I will have to record the ITV coverage for the evening.

By the time I start my first shift, some of you, from day one and two, may be putting your feet up, with a cuppa of a certain brand of tea!  So look out for me I will be wearing green, supporting sky blue and wanting our boys to get a yellow shirt and the white one with red spots, and a green one too...

It's been some years since I spent any sort of time in Yorkshire, around Swalesdale, to be exact, my memories are all very happy ones, great people and and some fantastic friends.  So I break the myth, its true I've been North of Watford Gap ;-) and on the roads between York and Harrogate,  just not on a bike!

Hopefully I will get the time to return to that part of the country, catch up with friends and make new ones. I'd like to cycle the full UK route of the Grand Départ maybe an anniversary ride next summer, because right now my diary is simply full.