For the many of you who have met Max and I, you may not credit us with a lot of common sense, and you would be right. But with age comes wisdom (allegedly), so rather than losing the 11th phone between us, we have decided to put this natural deficiency of common sense to good use.

We have signed up (with no marathon experience) to the Marathon De Sables - a 3-stage, 4-day, 120km ultra-marathon through the Sahara carrying everything we need to survive - food, water, emergency equipment - the lot!

Whilst this will be a true adventure for us, we would like to broaden the number of beneficiaries outside of ourselves and the closest pub to the finish line.

To anyone who knows us and the lucky few who have come across this by chance, please help raise money for an incredible cause:

Alzheimer’s Society: https://www.alzheimers.org.uk

- Currently more than 55 million people have dementia worldwide, with 1 in 3 people born in the UK today likely to be diagnosed with dementia in their lifetime.

- Individuals with dementia in the UK spend an average of £100,000 on social care.

- Alzheimer’s Society helps by providing critical support for both people living with the condition and their carers, as well as looking to the future by investing in ground-breaking research.