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Had two good bits of news this week.

Firstly, when I returned the BMW R1200GS to Ocean BMW Motorrad ( http://www.oceanbmwbikes.co.uk/ ) they waived the usual £15 + vat daily hire charge for a loan bike. I had ridden home on the bike on Tuesday afternoon and managed to get the bike filthy on Devon's mud covered roads. On Wednesday afternoon the salesman from Ocean phoned me and told me they needed the bike back for a customer to test ride it on Thursday morning. I decided to give the bike a good clean before returning it to them. The weather forecast was for sub-zero temperatures on Thursday morning so I decided to wimp out and return in on my bike trailer with a heavy duty bike cover over it to prevent it getting dirty again. I had to get up early and leave home at 7.00 am after spending time scrapping the ice off my car. Definitely the right decision to take the car and trailer. Bill at Ocean seemed genuinely surprised that I had taken the trouble to thoroughly clean their loan bike and that I had even returned it with more petrol in than when it left. I always believe in treating anyone else's vehicle as if it was my own.

Through my email, I received the latest newsletter from Touratech which featured an excellent article mentioning our Calum's Road trip. See: http://beta.maileasy.se/page.taf?versionid=61832

Next pleasant surprise was opening the mail to find a package of freebies from Touratech comprising of various stickers and a sew on patch.

Big thank you to both companies for their support. Our policy with the Calum's Road trip is that if we receive any discounts or free goods and services, we will donate a similar amount to the charity. Accordingly, I have therefore just made two donations of £20 each to cover the benefit received from these two companies.

Donations are shown at http://www.justgiving.com/sidhorman