Just to remove any lingering suspcion that I retain a tenuous connection to my faculties I have elected to run the London Marathon again !

I will be running for the same charity that I supported last year,  Hearing Dogs for Deaf People,  to which so many of you kindly donated by way of sponsorship last year.  The Marathon will be run on April 25th 2010 and although things are tight at present,  by that date we will be entwined in the green shoots of recovery.  I know this to be true because I heard a politician say so.  So if you can spare a bit of your hard earned cash now it would be greatly appreciated - and not just by me but by all those people whose lives are made so much better by these clever little doggies !