<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.</span><span style="line-height: 20px; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 14px;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 19px; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Many of you reading this knew my parents, Joan and Jim, who died within a year of each other from the same uncommon disease, Motor Neurone Disease, specifically&nbsp;<a style="border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #2a42c6; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALS">ALS</a>, known as Lou Gehrig's disease in North America.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 19px; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">On April 16th this year I will be starting a 3 week walk of the 268 mile Pennine Way, raising money for the&nbsp;<a style="border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #2a42c6; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://www.mndassociation.org/">MND Association</a>, which did much to help both of my parents, and which funds research into the causes and potential cures for ALS.</p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 19px; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">I will be updating my blog at</span><a style="border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #2a42c6; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://mndpennine.blogspot.com/">&nbsp;http://mndpennine.blogspot.com</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">&nbsp;throughout the journey, so starting on April 16th.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-image: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; line-height: 19px; 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