OK - Well I was just bringing Harriet back to Shaftesbury to pick up a car.
Readers of this blog will know that I am sometimes required to switch back to Mummy Mode which generally involves a lot of mileage...
As ever, Harriet couldn't travel without a serious nosebag, which is how we came to be at Fleet services, where we saw Geo and Tom (above, with me in the blurry photo!) hopefully holding their placard
"Charity Hitch Hike - South to Portsmouth" said the sign.
So we picked them up, having discovered that they were students form Manchester University, hitching from London to Morocco in aid of Link http://www.lcd.org.uk/events/ , a charity which raises money and runs community development projects in Africa.
I was going to drop them when we left the M3 for the A303. But it was cold and getting dark, and I didn't want to switch on the radio to hear that two young students had either been murdered or hit by a lorry.
So we took the delightful pair to Southampton docks and dropped them outside the ticket office.
They gave us the sweetest note and we'll be following their progress on Facebook,when Harriet gives me the address - given she hasn't lost the note...
More later
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