No, I'm not teary eyed - the follow up to Darraghchute

Just received this - completely unexpected - by email:

Dear Darragh,

Through your heroic efforts of jumping out of the plane, we did have a wonderful outing with 50 older people on the 30th of September. Please view the attached video of the participants showing their appreciation.

Regards,

Linda


Linda Desmond
CARELOCAL
The Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups
North Brunswick Street
Dublin 7

http://www.carelocal.com

I never fail to be surprised by the things people do. What a wonderfully generous and appropriate thing for a charity with limited resources and - they'd admit themselves - limed tech savviness to do for me. Humbling is what it is.

"I'm going to twitter!!" - the #darraghchute movie

Well, I did it. €2129.99 so far.

Niamh and I made a very cheesy video of the day, which is below. Will try to do a higher quality version later. Also used footage from the Irish Parachute Club.

I was nervous. VERY nervous. Of course it wasn't "the first live tweet ever from an aircraft". I love the "I'm GOING TO TWITTER" yell!

There's so many DO NOT WANT expressions on my face, especially as the parachute opens, and basically, I was in bits for a while afterwards.

But I did it.

Once again, thanks to everyone who donated, blogged, tweeted and wished me well. As embarrassing as this video is, this one is for you :)



There's a far more professional documentary about the day right here: