It is also hard to believe that this is really the final day of or little diary. I will miss writing it and hearing from you all.
Somehow so much seems to have happened this last week,so many contacts have been made, friendships built, relationships which we could not have dreamed of that day in June 2003 when we sat around a table in Dudley and signed the agreement with Saltmine which has made all this happen.Somehow we remember it all with a smile-- didn't it just seem a crazy idea at the time!!! Thank you to Colin, our Tigers chairman,the Tigers trustees and the team at Saltmine who made it all happen and had such faith in it. A huge thank you to Emma, Helen, Roger and all others at Saltmine who have helped arrange logistics and publicity, who have been there for us constantly and seen us all through this. We could not have done it without you! A big thank you to our Richard in Brussels without whom these website updates would not have been possible--and who has patiently designed this site and pasted text as we sent it through--Richard you are amazing!! (AND YES; I ABSOLUTELY DO WANT YOU TO PUT THIS ON THE SITE!!)And a big thank you, too, to all of our readers who have kept the Kili bunch--and me--going this week.Your support has been incedible.

Our climbers may well wave good-bye to Kili--to go home or even on to safari, perhaps on to Tigers in Uganda or even to a beach...to relax in the sunshine. But we hope that the end of this trip is not the end of the friendships that have been built but that these will continue to flourish and deepen. And I hope that as you embrace your loved ones upon their return and listen to all their stories, you will be able to think with us of the Tigers boys who can be helped to be reunited with their families, too--thanks to all your help and support!!!

Love to you all.
May the memories never fade!

Nicky and all of us at Tigers