‘Welcome to my blog. I post on this, roughly once a week (it does vary). I sustained a 'Traumatic Acquired Brain Injury', and a six month coma from a 'road traffic accident' whilst cycling, in October 2006. I spent the following 4 years (22-26yrs old), in a combination of hospitals and rehabilitation homes. Now, I have been living independently in Surbiton, England since October 2010. This blog begun life in December 2010, as i realised that there are many people worldwide that i want to share experiences with. I know that, as a wheelchair user, I am obviously not as mobile as i wish, so, use the internet to connect to you. I enjoy letting my thoughts represent through type. I type honestly. As numerous readers, as well as email recipients, will understand, I find typing to be very therapeutic. Thank you :)
Please note that this website cannot be viewed 100% successfully everywhere. It is designed for optimum viewing on a screen of 1920 x 1080 pixels.’
It alarms me to find that, those who view my blog on a mobile phone, have probably never read my introductory text (situated below my logotype, on computer screen) when viewed on a mobile phone! Hence, copied above.
I will no longer discuss the football of ‘my teams’, on this blog.
Anyway... Gym bike
2.47km in 5minutes
30 metres short - but I love pushing myself to the max, on a set of pedals! Afterwards, I just faced-facts. I knew that I had just sprinted, exerting as much as i physically could do. Content. Although, short of my ‘mental target for this springtime’, i am ‘on track’, and I am happy that I pushed myself to 100%. It is nowhere near a PB, but it is only February!
29.6kph
‘Mate, careful, look at the road!’
I sit at the bus-stop, after neurogym-time at the hospital. I look right, towards oncoming traffic, mentally pulling an imaginary bus towards me...
Then WOAH! Reality...!
I am alarmed by a young lad who has been cycling manically on the pavement, but then just bounds off of the curb, down into the road. Tracksuit billowing, and still chewing gum, he is totally oblivious to other traffic already on the road. The cars remain polite, and don’t react to such foolish behaviour!..
He survives...
Such greedy, stupidity, offends me. People like him result give the general public a negative attitude towards all bike riders (including ‘proper cyclists’ too).
I shout the warning, calmly as I am trying to help!
I first heard the following musician, earlier this week. Only through subsequent investigation do i realise that he has been around for a few years, and his release (today’s ‘Make Way For Love’), is in fact the second album of Marlon Williams.
Honestly, I was unsure at first, but in sensing his quality, I held through the first 5 minutes. Quality was confirmed as i listened to more and more. The power and pure quality, of his vocals are unique. I cannot compare him closely to anybody else, his style seems too unique, for me. Two artists of similar vocal qualities, ‘Anthony and the Johnsons’, and ‘Jeff Buckley’.
I shock myself, as I realise that I have always held Jeff Buckley completely supreme, incomparable to anyone!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUSJjsVoDy4 (2016 duet with Aldous Harding)
I may seem very self-assured and confident, to many of you. Maybe I am. I know that I want to be, as do most people. I like to think that I know where my strengths and weaknesses lie. I love surprising people by having unexpected ability, but this is taken by me negatively, as well. How weak, injured and disabled do ‘new people’ view me? I find this problem to be crucifying, because I AM disabled, and I cannot do a lot of things, yet I am still a living, breathing, independent human-being. I have feelings of pride, honour, and self-respect. I know that I may push the limits of these 3 essences, more than most. However, people must realise that I have to attempt to balance deficiencies that i now live with. I realise that I cannot do things which many people would not hesitate doing themselves. In equal contrast I maintain self-belief, by proving to myself that I have the ability to do other things which may seem very, very rare, or people will not do.
-A + B = 0
therefore
A = B
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