Swine flu produces particularly nasty complications in camels and sheep, but nothing of course to compare with the miserable, shivering, sweating, croaking lump which Paul turned into on Thursday night. So the trip has had to be postponed until the middle of October (the best weather day in the 16/17 weekend).

Although Paul was keen to battle on at all costs, surprisingly none of the other members of the team fancied sharing a tent with him or risking another shivering, sweating, croaking moment half way up. And the Scafell summit phone link-up with BBC Cumbria might have been obliterated by sustained coughing.

It was a beautiful day yesterday in Cumbria as well… so we’re all really miffed and Paul is still in isolation.

HOWEVER THIS IS MERELY A SET BACK AND WE WILL GO VERY SOON TO COMPLETE THIS UNIQUE EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF RIDING LIGHTS THEATRE COMPANY.

Thank you for your sponsorship so far. The upside of all this is of course that there is more time to raise even more money!! SO KEEP YOUR SPONSORSHIP COMING, because everything written below is still true…

We’re off to the top of England’s highest mountain, Scafell Pike, to film an astonishing sky high version of that great epic of yesteryear THE TEN COMMANDMENTS… er… with puppets and various friends and expedition helpers. Nothing as remarkable or so artistically risky as this has ever been attempted before. We are clearly going to sail into the Guinness Book of Records. The first filming of a theatre show on England’s highest peak.

Long-standing Riding Lights performers Snowy and Desmond will be reaching new heights with this towering project. Being quite small (and ancient), this will be hard work for our favourite puppets, as it will for the film crew. SO MAKE SURE YOU ENCOURAGE THEM BY SPONSORING GENEROUSLY and then sit back and enjoy the great movie remake.

A TREMENDOUSLY BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS ALREADY CONTRIBUTED!!

RIDING LIGHTS is seeking a new production fund to create more of the life-changing theatre that we want to take across the UK in the coming years… for young people, prisoners, theatres and church groups. On September 12th and 13th many of our friends will be taking part in all sorts of sky-high fundraising to help us reach our target.

TO SPONSOR THIS EXTRAORDINARY THEATRICAL EVENT, JUST CLICK HERE

We are teaming up with JumpMAD (www.jumpMAD.co.uk) to help raise £50,000 towards the work of Riding Lights.

We are offering ANYONE the opportunity to show how much they love Riding Lights by jumping out of an aeroplane! All you have to do is raise at least £375 worth of sponsorship with all funds going to Riding Lights and JumpMAD will then make all the necessary arrangements and the costs of you making the jump will be covered.

We want to go for a REALLY BIG JUMP with lots of people jumping for Riding Lights at the same time. The jump will be the weekend of the 12th and 13th September and there will be simultaneous jumps from four locations in the UK (Hibaldstow, Oxford, Nottingham and March).

Our aim is to get 150 people jumping for Riding Lights in September, each raising sponsorship of around £600. Once the costs of the exhilarating experience of you jumping out of an aeroplane at about 12,000ft have been covered, that would mean that Riding Lights would have about £50,000 of much-needed funds to help stage productions in the next couple of years.

And if skydiving doesn’t appeal, there are plenty of other ways to help raise money for your favourite theatre company. If you think you could do something sponsored or hold a fundraising event, call Susie at the office on 01904 655317, or email theskysthelimit@rltc.org for more information. In addition to this, Riding Lights will be holding our own fundraising events. Watch this space for more info!

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