Last Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday I was on the Practical Skills For Business Course. For those who read the blog regularly this is the follow on course from the Enterprise Induction one. This time there is no qualification but as far as I’m concerned it is a far better course. Once again, and I […]
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The Amputee at the Paralympics
September 2, 2012 
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Months ago I entered a competition in ‘PosAbility’ Magazine that was being run by Poweade. It was to win tickets for the Paralympics, I knew I wouldn’t win but there were also Powerade bottles for loads of runners up that I thought I might win. A few weeks ago to, my surprise and delight, I […]
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Scanned
August 24, 2012 0 Comments
This morning I had a trip over to Addenbrooke’s Hospital for an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) Scan of my stump. My appointment was for 09:30 but you had to be there 15 mins before the appointment time. We got to the hospital at about 08:40 which meant we managed to get a disabled parking space […]
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A job well done
August 21, 2012 0 Comments
So, 8 months and 11 days after my surgery they have finally completed the Kitchen worktop, hussar! Two guys came yesterday to start the work, one of them was the person who came round to do the quote. He was really good and came up with some good suggestions to get the best from the […]
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Progress
August 19, 2012 0 Comments
There has been some progress with both the Kitchen adaption and the Wet Room, so here’s the update:- Wet Room At the beginning of the week a surveyor came out to see the Bathroom and assess the work that needs doing. He was really nice, explained things really well and also checked that I knew […]
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Sporting choice
August 14, 2012 0 Comments
The Olympics has helped to inspire me to get back into sport, not to be a Paralympian in 2016, although why not, but to take up a sporting activity. Having said all that it had always been my intention take up a sport after recovering from the amputation. The sports I have done in the […]
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Olympic inspiration
August 13, 2012 0 Comments
So that’s it, the Olympics is finally over and I am having withdrawals already from my daily fix. I have never been that into it in the past but did watch parts of it and sports I liked. Not sure if it was because it was being staged in the UK, because I had the […]
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A national qualification
August 8, 2012 2 Comments
I must apologise for the lack of blog post recently but nothing very significant has happened and I have become addicted to the Olympics, sad I know. The ‘nothing significant’ bit changed when Monday I started my two day Introduction to Enterprise course. As I am unemployed the course was offered free through TCHC and […]
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The Amputee 