<p><span style="font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #e1e9f2;">On the 1st of April, I'll be running the&nbsp;</span><a class="postlink" style="color: #32475f; text-decoration: none; font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #e1e9f2; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://www.tauntonmarathon.co.uk/">Taunton 1/2 marathon</a><span style="font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #e1e9f2;">. Seeing as I was doing this stupid thing anyway, it seemed a good time to try and raise some money for charity.</span><br style="font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #e1e9f2; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><br style="font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #e1e9f2; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #e1e9f2;">A couple of years ago, my Nanna died and, several years before that, so did my Granddad. Both spent their final days in the excellent care of&nbsp;</span><a class="postlink" style="color: #32475f; text-decoration: none; font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #e1e9f2; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://www.stmichaelshospice.org.uk/?page=Fundraising">St Michael's Hospice in Basingstoke</a><span style="font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #e1e9f2;">. In their memory, I'm hoping to raise enough money for two hours of specialist nursing - &pound;200.</span><br style="font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #e1e9f2; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><br style="font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #e1e9f2; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, &#39;Trebuchet MS&#39;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: #e1e9f2;">Therefore, I'm posting to ask for sponsorship. Anything that you are willing or able to give will be greatly appreciated.</span></p> <p>(for anyone who is interested in small metal men, a randomly selected donation giver will receive something from my collection - an added incentive)</p> <p>***EDIT***</p> <p>Thanks to a wonderful show of support in the first couple of days, I've had to raise my target total. I am now hoping to raise &pound;350, which is the cost of<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">&nbsp;a day care session for as many as fifteen patients.</span></p>