I’m pleased to be able to say that this Sunday Frances will be running her very first 5k race, in order to support her friend Maggie, who is currently battling cancer. Maggie has had a tough time of it, but is being incredibly inspirational, as well as brave, by fighting back and helping raise awareness [...]
We didn’t have a wedding list for our wedding. We’d set up home together years ago, and couldn’t really think of things we really wanted to ask for. So instead of getting “best” crockery we’d not use very often or at all (we both much prefer informal meals), we instead encouraged guests to make a [...]
I’ve just received an e-mail announcing that entries for the 2008 Men’s Health Forum Scotland (MHFS) 10k run are open with a nice discount for early entrants (and maybe some low-number prestige, or is that just me ;-). It takes place on June 15th 2008 (That’s Fathers Day!), in Bellahouston Park, and it is apparently the [...]
Earlier today I finally got around to posting off all the sponsorship forms and outstanding money I’d received for my sponsored run of the 2007 Glasgow Half Marathon. I ran it in aid of The Prostate Cancer Charity. I’m really pleased to be able to say that the Grand Total raised comes to £3,324.20p! Marvellous stuff, and [...]
First and foremost: Thank you all so much for all your support! I’m pleased to report that I successfully completed the Glasgow Half Marathon, and have so far raised £1,504.20. My company had pledged to match up to the target of £1,500, so the total raised for The Prostate Cancer Charity comes to £3,004.20, and money [...]
Only a few days left to the half marathon now! Sunday 2nd September at 10am. Pleased to say that I received my race pack on Monday, so have checked everything out and put it somewhere nice and safe. I entered three months ago, and at the time I was initially rather apprehensive about whether I’d even [...]
I’m not the only person raising sponsorship for charity at the moment (See the widget to the right here). I just recently managed to stumble on an very impressive endeavour by people in from my home village of Priddy to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust in memory of Lizzie Berkeley. The West Mendip [...]
Yesterday I started merrily sending out e-mails to family, friends, colleagues and pretty much everybody I can think of, to ask if they’ll consider sponsoring me for my half-marathon run in September. I’ve already been delighted to have heard from a number of readers who are keen to sponsor me based on my earlier posts, [...]
Shaggy Blog Stories is a collection of weblog writings collated into a book, the profits of which will be donated to Red Nose Day. I feel I have to say that I do find the whole ‘organised national charity day with television tie-in’ thing a little, well, forced and tiresome (At least RND folk deserve some [...]
Whilst the eyes of the country may be on the Grand National this afternoon, tomorrow my thoughts will be with my friend Martin, who is running in the 2006 Paris Marathon Martin is running to raise funds for his late niece’s foundation – The Rebecca McNie Foundation (Website is due soon I understand). I’ve donated some [...]
