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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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 […]
Continue reading 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 […]
Continue reading 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 […]
Continue reading Time to go it alone
July 27, 2012 0 Comments
I was up and at the Job Centre by nine o’clock this morning as I had an appointment with a personal adviser from TCHC (The Consultancy Home Counties). TCHC is a private company working for the Government to assist people facing Redundancy or Unemployed. For those, who like me, are Unemployed they offer funding and […]
Continue reading One night only (Part 2)
July 23, 2012 0 Comments
Saturday night I got hardly any sleep as I wrestled with the shower room situation. The room layout consisted of a massive rectangular room (longest length from side to side as you look from the door) with the door on the far right hand side. It was that big you could have easily got a […]
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July 22, 2012 0 Comments
Yesterday was D Day for Annual Camp, I finished all my packing last minute .com style in the morning in time for packing into the car. Dad helped me a lot especially with packing the car, which was a good job since I was lugging a suitcase, suit carrier, small Bergen, daysack, camera backpack, tripod, […]
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