No that’s not a ‘mini’ (a.k.a. small) adventure that’s an adventure in a ‘mini’ (car).  We noticed an article in The Northampton Chronicle and Echo newspaper where it was reported that the Jordan family from Daventry, Northants intended to drive a 1979 Mini Clubman Estate that they bought on Ebay for £175 on the 1,200 mile Crumball Rally, based on the route taken in the 1969 Michael caine movie The Italian Job - and all in the charitable hope of raising £2,000 for the CLIC Sargent cancer charity.  If you’d like to donate to the Jordan’s chosen charity you can - at http://www.justgiving.com/crumballrally

Apart from marvelling, as always, at the delightfully eccentric things that people come up with in a charitable cause - it was also the first time that I’d noted the CLIC Sargent cancer charity name.  Not a name that the majority will have heard of, I guess, so I did a little bit of research to find out something about them :

CLIC Sargent is the UK’s leading children’s cancer charity, supporting children and their families through cancer and leukaemia every step of the way and is the result of a recent merger between two excellent charities who have done tremendous work with children and their families over the last 30+ years. Over that period the survival rates for childhood cancer have risen from fewer than four out of ten children with cancer surviving to more than seven out of ten surviving. But even with this success, cancer and leukaemia is still the biggest killer, apart from accidents, amongst young children. (more…)