Tabitha's supporting Action 4 Cancer- please sponsor us!!

Let the training begin! Myself and fellow snake charmer Fyful Smith have taken on the challenge of a lifetime, in order ot raise much needed funds for our friends breast cancer charity, Action4Cancer, we will be flying to Peru in September to compete in the Great River Amazon Raft Race 2010!! This entails building our own raft from logs and paddling 112 miles down the river Amazon- in just 3 days!!!

Please please support us by donating anything you can spare- we each aim to raise £2000 for thismost worthy of causes.

Cash and cheques made payable to "Action4Cancer" can be sent to:
Tabitha's Snakes And Ladies Raft Race
134 Cromwell Road
Cambridge
CB1 3EG

or by internet banking using the following details:
account number is 81502379
sort code - 402602
make sure to reference your donation: DONATE GRACE (so as not to confuse the accountant!)

You may also find collection boxes at the following locations for dropping your loose change into:

• Billy's Bike Shop, Burleigh St, Cambridge
• The Zebra Pub, Maids Causeway, Cambridge
• Shepreth Wildlife Park Education centre, Station Road, Shepreth
• The Cross keys Pub, Madoc St, Llandudno
• Pythons Lair, Drayton Road, Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Many thanks to these kind establishments for their support!!

Thank you so much!!

To follow my training and fundraising antics you can follow my personal blog:
www.grace-eye-view.blogspot.com

and join my facebook group at:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?gid=134736266557666&v=info&ref=ts

Furthermore, 25% of the profits from all snake jobs in the next 2 months will be donated to the charity (more reason to make a booking!) and 100% commision from all tshirt and apparrel sales from our shop, Tabitha's Tees will be donated to Action4Cancer. Visit our shop via the website.

Thanks again,
Squeezes,
Good Gracious. xx

Back online, and thinking about spring cleaning

Oh it's been quiet from us here in the snake den, but not because things have been quiet! Quite the opposite infact, June proved to be crazy busy not only the the Bizarre ball, but shortly followed by a gig in london for our friends at Explosive Events and two may balls. Durning this time new chap Dhara was put through his paces some more and proved himself to be a true star taking it al in his stride, and he wasn't the only one...

This year we have seen more mish mashing of snake handlers than ever before due to all kinds of different things- anyhoo at the very last minute I was truly stuck for a male handler to don our aladdin costume and assist me for the Explosive gig. As fate would have it, while phoning round at 11pm the night before the event and at the pinnacle of my stress capacity, my old friend and at that time soon-to-be Cold Blooded Crew member, stand up comedian, Mr Tommy Ettling came to the rescue. Now myself and Tommy had been in talks about drafting him in as our compare/ring master for our forthcoming circus stage show for next year, but he has now proven himself as an accidental but wonderful snake handler! It makes sense in retrospect, the guy has been handling snakes since we were 14 years old and used to hang at my house after school... anyway, thanks Tommy, a true life saver and a great friend. Here's to more future gigs together!

We have another last minute newbie in the form of Swedish Blonde bombshell Alex (still working on show name- all suggestions greatfully recieved and considered!), a lady I met through my previous employment as an animal wrangler, who by chance has now taken up employment at my current day job. She and Dhara have hit it off and he is now under her full time care. She made her debut at Clare college may ball in belly dancing get up and was an instant hit! Funnily enough, at the same event was a chap with camels, whome I used to jockey camels for at public races- small world!

In other news Wotan is recovering well from laying 9 eggs and is eating like a horse to make up for her loss on condition, Dhara has settled in well in his new home at Shepreth Wildlife Park adn Inca is growing mighty big and fast!

You may have noticed our main website (www.snakesandladies.co.uk) has been out of action for sometime- this is thanks to the service provider going bust and not telling us about it. Thankfully all is sorted and pretty much in order again. Our most sincere apologies for any inconvenience our lack of availability may have caused. Now wer are getting back to normal we can get on with sorting out our handler profiles and gallery, which will come as a welcome relief I'm sure. Watch this space!

Squeezes,

Good Gracious x