£3,400.25. Not. Bad. At. All.

EdTwestival a charity event arranged through Twitter by Twitterers for Tweeters. Confused? So were we. Initially. To every tale there's a backstory and as usual in this blog we end up thanking people. So, here goes.

• In the beginning there was @mikecoulter. One conversation. Two men. Twenty beers. A thousand ideas. Ok, there have been a few more conversations since but basically Mr C got me to dip my toe into the whole social media thing and more specifically, Twitter.
• Eight months down the line and after a successful 300 mile trip to the Outer Hebrides in aid of CLIC Sargent, supported by the cast from the Edinburgh Coffee Morning, @darciec nominates us as one of the candidates to become the official charity for Edinburgh Twestival Local.
• A titanic battle with @lynneschallenge (who this month, September 2009, is trying to raise an amazing £100,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust) saw us, @300miles, victorious. CLIC Sargent became the official charity for EdTwestival Local 2009!
• The amazing team from @EdTwestival including:  Thanks to @darciec for the photo

• @btocher 
• @bettinaantonina 
• @cityferret 
• @jimwolffman 
• @littledishy 
• @salidatious

Rather charitably, they added our name on the website as part of the planning team. This is confession time: we didn't actually do a whole pile. Hats off to the team for arranging what was an amazing night. Further details of what went on can be found at the Edinburgh Twestival website but suffice to say there were a few beers drunk (and there was cake)!

Lee