Allow me for one short moment to go a little off-topic. It’s for a good cause, and I promise this is less painful than rattling a bucket in front of you.

One of my best friends needs some help from you all.

Last year, Sadhana’s father almost died but the heart and renal teams at Hope Hospital managed to save him and she wants to give something back. By the sounds of it, he’s going to be spending a lot more time there in the future so she wants to make sure that they have everything they need for him, and the several hundred other patients they deal with each year.

So, she’s running a charity day to raise money for the unit, in the hope that they’ll be able to help more people, and more easily.

It’s taking place on Saturday the 1st December at Monton Memorial Hall. All money goes to the Renal Unit, and at the very least you can chill out to some meditation.

Now, I’m not that into yoga myself (hence my terrible posture), but I’m doing whatever I can to lend a hand, so if you know anybody who is into yoga who wants to go down there, you fancy it yourself, or you’d like to sponsor her or anybody else attending, you should e-mail her and let her know.

Incidentally, Sadhana is - according to her students who should know these things - a really great yoga teacher. So if you know anybody looking for a teacher (or considering it yourself), throw them the URL.