Tag: charity
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Distinguished Gentleman?
Just back from today’s Distinguished Gentlemen’s Ride in Bristol. I was woken in the middle of the night by the noise of a torrential downpour, and when I woke up early in the morning it was still plummeting down. Oh, I thought… well… I’ve kind of got to do this, because so many lovely kind…
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Proud father moment
It’s impossible not to blog about how proud I am of my daughter, Charlotte, who will hate this post. Last Sunday she ran her first ever full marathon, in Manchester, in under 4h40m. She ran for the love of running, but also to raise money for a charity close to our hearts. Janet was diagnosed…
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Hoggin’ the Bridge
Hoggin’ the Bridge is an annual charity bike ride, initially established in the year 2000 for Harley’s (hence the Hog in the Hoggin’) but now attended by up to four thousand motorcycles, trikes and even quads of various manufacture. Starting on the England side of the old Severn Bridge, it took some time for all the bikes…
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Thought for the Week – Yule
Well, another one writ, and with a small plug for the TDN and CC result… In the pagan year there is a kind of resting space between Samhain and Yule. From honouring memories of our ancestors at Samhain, we join in Remembrance of our honoured dead, and into a world itself seemingly dying. Leaves fall,…
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Not just dippy, trippy, hippies…
Not that being a dippy, trippy, tree-hugging hippy is altogether a bad thing, but when described as such it does lower folks’ expectations and leads to one being taken less seriously than, say, your local Christian, Buddhist or Muslim, etc. From time to time, being kind of ‘out there’ as to my spiritual persuasion, I’ve…
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