I was in a meeting recently regarding the forthcoming Glasgow parkrun, and one of the Pollok park representatives asked if I’d support the effort by Friends of Linn park to bring a pebble beach picnic area and improved pathways to the park.
I love Linn park - it’s Glasgow’s second biggest park, after Pollok, and absolutely delightful. It’s also one of it’s least well known. When I ran through there recently with some fellow runners, many commented that they’d never been to the park, and it boasts a few beautiful outlooks over the Cart. More about the park at the councils website.
The effort by the Friends of Linn park is competing with another project to win funding from the Big Lottery People’s millions, so needs people to phone up and support it. Lines open on Monday 24th from 9am, to midnight. Details on STV Scotland Today on the 24th, and via biglotteryfund.org.uk/peoplesmillions. There’s also more on the Linn park website.
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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 all that she can. Indeed, this will be the second year she’s taken part in her local Race For Life event, and will be supported by Frances and a good number of her other friends.
You can read more about Maggie, and why she’s running, at her Race For Life sponsorship page. It’s a difficult read, but still very inspirational stuff. As with all the other Race For Life events, it’s for the excellent Cancer Research charity. So if you can spare some money to make a donation - of any size - it’d make a big difference, and really help Maggie, Frances and her friends on their run this Sunday.
Sadly though I’m not going to be there to cheer Frances and her friends on as I’m running in a different race that day, in the the MHFS 10K in Glasgow. This event is doing a great job in itself of raising awareness of men’s health issues. I’m sure she’ll do very well: She’s been putting in some decent training, but I’ve been told in no uncertain terms she’s not about to take up running, but I’m still quietly enjoying seeing her running shoes by the door 
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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 donation to either Macmillan or the Alzheimer’s Society. These are both causes that Frances and I support. Alzheimer’s and cancer has affected our families and friends, and supporting these causes through our “wedding list” seemed a great way to help.
This week we finally got around to sending off the donations, cheques and tax-efficient donation forms we’d received. We’re absolutely delighted to report that we raised a grand total of £572.50p for Macmillan, and £322.50p for the Alzheimer’s Society.
So a massive thank you to everybody for their generosity!
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