Yesterday afternoon I was off down the Surgery to see the practice nurse. We’d had no snow all day until 15 minutes before I set wheels outside the house, it was coming down really heavy. Dad came with me, which I have to say I was pleased about, as the potential to closely inspect the […]
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The Wet Room is finished!
November 26, 2012 
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Last Monday, a year a nine days after my amputation, they finally started work on the Wet Room. With a total of 6 people (doing various different bits for different lengths of time) and a few delays on parts they got it completed on Friday. We did have to call them out late Friday afternoon […]
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November 16, 2012 0 Comments
On the 26th of October I received a letter from the building company to say they accepted the tender for the wet room conversion. It went quiet for a while and then low and behold I received a phone call from them yesterday, asking if they could start it on Monday. I was exceptionally surprised, […]
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October 3, 2012 0 Comments
Monday and Tuesday were the last 2 days of the 8 day Practical Skills For Business Course. The topics covered were Financial Management & Financial Administration, both exceptionally heavy topics I wasn’t looking forward to but needed the most. Mmmmmm large doses of accounts, tax and vat, just what you need at the start of […]
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September 29, 2012 0 Comments
The other week I received a phone call for the QM (Quartermaster) at Cambs ACF (Army Cadet Force) to let me know that a meeting was going to take place. The Estates Manager from East Anglia RFCA (Reserve Forces and Cadet Association) and their Architect were meeting with the QM at the Cadet Training Centre, […]
Continue reading Feeling under the weather
September 15, 2012 0 Comments
Thursday and Friday was the latest installment of the Practical Skills For Business Course. It was great to see Andrew and the Group again but I really didn’t feel with it at all. We covered Business Management and Operations on the Thursday and Costing & Pricing on the Friday, I managed to get through both […]
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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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July 26, 2012 0 Comments
It may be my 1st Birthday as an amputee but in real money I am 40 today. Apparently, so the saying goes, life begins at 40 and I would like to think that’s true. Because I was supposed to be on Annual Camp for my Birthday I was a bit worried about it, nothing to […]
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