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<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca; color: #000000;">’m going to cut straight to the chase.</span><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca; color: #000000;">I want your money.</span><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca; color: #000000;">Now your probably saying at this point “As charming, charismatic and handsome as you are why should I give you my money?”</span><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca; color: #000000;">Simple, for charity.</span><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca; color: #000000;">To be more specific MND Scotland.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca; color: #000000;">MND Scotland is the only Scottish charity dedicated to people with Motor Neurone Disease (MND), their families, friends and carers. We provide a wide range of services, information about MND, and funding for research. Through education, campaigning and research, they work collaboratively to ensure that people affected by MND have access to the highest quality care and support.</span><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca;">And you can find out more about them </span><a style="text-align: left; color: #b7115c; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;" href="http://www.mndscotland.org.uk/">here.</a></span><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca; color: #000000;">Now at this point your probably asking “OK, its a good cause but as charming, charismatic, handsome and talented as you are why should I give YOU the money?”</span><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca; color: #000000;">and that’s a good question (you’re really good at this)</span><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca;">The reason why I’m asking for the money is that I have signed up to do the</span><a style="text-align: left; color: #b7115c; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;" href="http://toughmudder.co.uk/">Tough Mudder Challenge</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca; color: #000000;">The Tough Mudder event is hardcore 11 mile-long obstacle courses designed by the Special Forces to test your all around strength, stamina, mental grit, and camaraderie that puts its participants through mud, water, fire, electricity and *shudders* stingy nettles. The course itself is at Drumlanrig Castle and Country Estate and consists of 28 gruelling obstacles over the 11 mile course and generally takes about 3 hours to finish and will be held in July.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca;">At this point you are either saying one of two things</span><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><span style="color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca;">“What the f****? They ELECTROCUTE you at the end! Why man? Why? ”</span><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><span style="color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca;">or</span><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><span style="color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca;">“Hmmmkay, that sounds tough but I’m still not convinced.”</span><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><span style="color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca;">I should probably point out that I have never ran a marathon or any sort of endurance test, the last time I set foot in a gym and exercised I was 16 (being of the ripe old age of 34), my diet is pretty guff, I am partial to the odd pint or 3, the occasional cigar and the most energetic I get is playing gears of war on my x-box. In short, I’m pretty out of shape.</span><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><span style="color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca;">This means I will have *counts on fingers* about 5 months to get into shape for this event in between all of the usual day to day things that have to be done. Feel free to have a look at their recommended training program ( I did some stretches just scrolling down the page)</span><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><br style="text-align: left; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; background-color: #fef0ca;"><span style="color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca;">And there you have it.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left; background-color: #fef0ca;">So if I have convinced you to part with your hard earned and much appreciated on my part cash please do and </span><span style="background-color: #fef0ca; color: #513131; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">remember and tick the gift aid box if you can, it doesn’t cost you any extra and it really does help</span></p>
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