Matt: Chap. Father. Sometime writer. Loud. Nostalgic. Ranty. Looks a bit like a microphone.

The Anthony Nolan Trust are a pretty amazing blood cancer charity and have set up a bone marrow register. If you haven’t heard of them, I strongly recommend checking out some of the work they do — the bone marrow register itself has the potential to save/improve/extend a lot of lives. 

If you’re between the ages of sixteen and thirty, I think it would be a pretty incredible thing to get your name down on that register. I was all set to do exactly that, until I saw the upper age range made me ineligible (shut your mouth). Registering to be a bone marrow donor is so easy these days – you don’t even need to leave your house anymore. Just register online with Anthony Nolan, they’ll send you out a ‘spit kit’ (if you’re not sold just on that name, then I don’t know what it’s going to take) in the post. You spit. You seal. You send.

Then, one day, you might be asked to do something really bloody brilliant for somebody.

If all that sounds like it might be a bit too much — and I understand if it does — then just chuck me a few quid here instead. The money goes to the fine ladies and gents at Anthony Nolan who will use it to do some amazing things.

Meanwhile, I’d better get training.