Preparation

So far the weather has done as its told and we are still due to begin our swim between 12.30 and 1.30 am Saturday morning.

Having all now returned to Kent, bar Poppy who is due to arrive at around 10.20 pm, we have spent the day packing our kit and buying in supplies for the trip.

Packing is now complete with kit bags full of costumes, goggles, swimming hats, vaseline, suncream and the like!

Pasta is currently being cooked to take onboard tomorrow and we have the most enormous supply of biscuits, rolls, sweets, jelly anbd fruit to take.  We certainly won't be going hungry!

A few anonymous items have also made it into our bags including parts of a Captain Hook outfit, facepaint and large inflatable Union Jack hands just to cheer us up in those moments when we may get a bit down!

We are all a mixture of nerves and excitment at present and most of relief as it looks like we will get to attempt the swim altogether, something which none of us would have dreamed possible earlier in the week!

We will be in touch before we go....