Entry for 11th January, 2008

Welcome to the Blog of the Kindly Cuppa
40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends
is my goal in life.
And it must be done before 10th July.
Click here to find out why.
If you would like to be my friend and earn a QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea) then let me know.
No. of QCTs to date: 3
As suspected, my four weeks without alcohol came to a crashing end last night, following my night out with Learned Counsel. We had a brilliant night though, but I am cursing myself because I forgot to have a QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea) with him, in spite of having persuaded him to agree to being bagged for the project. I am clearly not dedicated enough to the cause. With slippage like this I will not get anywhere near the required rate of QCTPM (Qualifying Cups of Tea Per Month) that is required for success.
However, everything is not gloom and doom. I am fairly clear that, after several pints of Old Titanic in Babbity Bowsers, Learned Counsel understood the importance of this project to me. He was sceptical at first (he may have described it as "a very silly thing to do), but I won him over with my impassioned rhetoric. Eventually, he realised that my self-worth is now bound up in the quest.
He also pointed out to me that I do not have anything like 40 friends, and that I am doomed to failure. But, I explained to him, that I am allowed to make new friends as I journey on my quest, and that (thanks to you getle reader) I have already had offers of cups of tea from as far afield as London and New York.
So, we made a pact, Leaned Counsel and I. We may have been drunk, but a pact is a pact I say, and the pact is this: if I am struggling to make the target by the time summer comes, then we are going on a road trip to try to reach the target. So, get out your diaries, because me and my wing man will be meeting you in a motorway service station later in the year.