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18 November 2008 | Estimated reading time: < 1 minutes

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I’ve recently started writing a blog on the Sunday Mail website. The blog is part of the Heart of Scotland network which I feel privileged to be taking part in. There’s a great range of blogs covering topics as diverse as journalism, living with a disability and traffic cones!

As well as all the hefty stuff mentioned in my introductory post I want use this blog and my new shiny one on the Sunday Mail site to dispell the myth that everyone working in the third sector is a Guardian reader who wears shoes made out of tofu. As with all blogs there will be lots of personal opinion so it’s worth noting that what I say doesn’t necessarily represent the views of my employers or the organisations which I volunteer for.

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