Tuesday was the first Physio session since the revision surgery on my stump. We set off in plenty of time, the journey was a bit slow in places but we were extremely lucky to get a disabled parking space at 09:30. We went through the inside of the Hospital to get to the other end […]
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Second Paralympic experience
September 9, 2012 
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Before I won the Tickets for the Paralympics a friend on Facebook had asked me if I was going, long story short we arranged to go together. That Facebook friend is Ellie, we worked at the same Prison and I haven’t seen her for about 4 years now. I booked tickets for the Women’s Sitting […]
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September 2, 2012 0 Comments
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 […]
Continue reading Good use of a bad day
May 13, 2012 0 Comments
I had done a lot of research on Dads side of the family before we came away so I was glad he had a U-turn and decided to try and find out more while we were there. Thursday was the second and last bad weather day so that gave us the perfect opportunity for a […]
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April 30, 2012 0 Comments
Saturday was wet and miserable but I had been looking forward to the day for weeks as I was going to my first every big live sporting event. Every year the Army and Navy play rugby at Twickenham Stadium for the Babcock Trophy and I have wanted to go to the match for years. I […]
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April 27, 2012 0 Comments
I had been looking forward to yesterday for a while as it was the first day since the surgery that I was going out to do some photography. Every year Cambridgeshire Army Cadet Force has the recruiting trailer at the Army Careers Exhibition held at the Army Training Regiment Bassingbourn (ATR(B)). I missed last year’s […]
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March 6, 2012 0 Comments
Yesterday was a bit of a busy day, down to Biggleswade for a 10:00 Dentist appointment. Yes I know I live in Cambridgeshire and Biggleswade is in Bedfordshire but I used to live there and kept some of my services going. As regular readers will know I have been banned from using crutches which is […]
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