Well good news!

Jo finished the marathon in a pretty good time of 4 hrs and 17 mins, beating her personal best by some 5 minutes. She also reckons she could have gone quicker, so will no doubt enter the London Marathon this coming year, even after promising that this would be the last one. Scary prospect is the thought of me being dragged along for 26 miles too!

Raised a very generous £225 from people on here, donating £5s and £10s and sometimes even more. Amazing result, stemming from me just begging to get some cash in for someone you don't even know, and only know by association.

Quite humbling really, and sometimes you forget how much of a community this place can be - something I've no doubt taken for granted or forgotten whilst off on one of my "richard is always right" rants. Doing little things like this for charity and seeing people come out in support, especially those who I've given loads of stick to over the years who could quite easily have not bothered, really makes you think how important a good community can be, even if it is based online.

Once again, thank you to all of you who donated - when I told Jo that a bunch of people from a car forum I use had cobbled together in excess of £200, she was overwhelmed to say the least! Truly fantastic response, all things considered, which has pushed us really close to the target we were aiming for.

Of course, we're still accepting donations in, so if you've only just read this post, feel free!