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As I received another job rejection without interview, it's just dawned on me that my CV seems to mean that I get rejected out of hand f...

It's now been 7 months since I stopped working. Technically, as they paid my notice, I suppose I've only actually been out of work f...

I find myself caught in a strange kind of halfway house. I've been productively spending my time volunteering... it keeps me busy and ...

Within my own personal social media echo-chamber, I follow a number of MS-related pages and blogs: some of the main charities, but also a fe...

There's a r eally nice little charity that provides toilets for the third world .  Their hook is that you get to "twin" your t...

As well as my legs feeling a bit weird over the last few weeks, I had a late night yesterday and as a consequence was absolutely shattered a...

My #MistletoeMugshot for the MS Trust - pucker up people and share the love! And text MWAH16 £5 to 70070 to donate £5 to support the 1...

I've had some post from the MS Trust . It's a little pamphlet suggesting ways that you can raise money to support what is a ver...

For the last couple of months, I've been planning a special day at my local parkrun to celebrate and to encourage visually impaired runn...

I don't seem to get lie-ins any more.  Like any self-respecting teenager, I used to consider it something of an outrage if I had to be u...

When I did that Guide Running course organised by England Athletics last year, part of their longer-term plan was to get a database of quali...

So, with that very gentle 2-miler, and after around 500 miles of training since Christmas, that's marathon training done!  There's n...

I know I talk about running on here a lot.  Well, let's be perfectly honest: now that I'm marathon training, I think it's fair t...

This came for me in the post today. It's a DBS - Disclosure and Barring Service - certificate, and it means that I've been che...

It's 23rd December, but for some reason, I don't feel especially Christmassy yet.  I've wrapped my presents, we've had the b...

* IMPORTANT VIRTUAL RUN NEWS * The May the 4th Be With You virtual run has now completely sold out.  Two batches of 500 medals sold out i...

So, I was all ready to announce to you that the Virtual Run to raise money for our London Marathon fund for the MS Trust went live today ......

I’m trying to think up ways of raising money for our MS Trust marathon fund that don’t just rely on badgering people to give us money. We r...

I'm sure that you've seen the terrible pictures from Turkey and from Greece as Syrian refugees desperately try to reach Europe.  I w...

Over the last few months, I've been doing a bit of guide running at Colwick parkrun.  I meet up with Terry, pull on a fluorescent bib sa...