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ByJohn MayLast week I said I wanted to shave off another couple of minutes to get my personal best under the magic two hours. Well, today I achieved it… Just. It really was a beautiful day in Brighton. No wind. Sunshine. Lots of very keen and polite competitors. And a relatively flat course, which went mainly…
Welcome to the world
ByJohn MayMy brother Joe and his wife Trish are now the very proud parents of Jack Patrick, born today in Newcastle, New South Wales. Jack Patrick shares his birthday with his grandmother in England – (good timing for the perfect birthday present for his granny!) His grandmother in Australia says he looks like me. Not sure…
What I’m continuing to learn about cats
ByJohn MayOne of the unexpected pleasures of leading Cats Protection has been discovering just how much there is still to learn. People sometimes assume that when someone becomes the Chief Executive of a charity, they somehow become an expert overnight in whatever that organisation exists to do. The reality is rather different. I arrived with many…
A right Royal afternoon
ByJohn MayIt’s not often that you get visited by a member of the British Royal family. Today, however, we were visited by three. HM The Queen, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and HRH The Earl of Wessex came to reopen Award House, home of The Duke Of Edinburgh’s International Award. And, apparently for the first time,…
Paris Marathon 2008
ByJohn MayThe headlines are pretty simple. I am the proud owner of a finisher’s medal and tee shirt for this year’s Paris Marathon, having achieved a personal best by scraping in at 4 hours 59 minutes. Or at least I think that’s my time. My Garmin tells me that’s the case, but I’ll have to wait…
It’s snowing…
ByJohn MayI see that there has been a ‘severe weather warning’ in Britain over the weekend, because it has snowed and there has been as much as two inches of the white and powdery stuff in places. Ha! That’s nothing, compared with the Haute Savoie on the border between France and Switzerland just outside Geneva. I…

