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 :)
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Friday 17 February 2017

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Last week, I advertised this blog through the usual social-media pages, and it seemed as popular as ever. However, I was then amused to find a reaction that was rather unexpected!...


I realised that this was my first ever unknown critic of the blog. Criticism must always be viewed as a possible source of improvements.
… So i want to find if this is a view shared, and must i react accordingly, changing my style?
Or is it a singular/lonesome view?
or, just leave a comment here, on my blog (click link under each post).

Tuesday 14th, I tried to distract myself, by publishing a social-media ‘remembrance of cycling legend, Marco Pantani’.

However mid-afternoon, i was out, i was brought back to sad reality, on hearing the opening organ tune of ’Oh lover, you should've come over’. I had to stay in the shop for the entire tune. Back home, and I had to play the entire copy of ‘Grace’ loud enough to accompany myself singing EVERY WORD of the entire album!



15th day after Valentines, back on ‘my bike’! 
Although I have kept 'legs turning' over Winter/Christmas, by using the 'bike' machine, at the gym,  I have selected this as a good date to 're-discover' my home gym-bike. The '2017' folder has it's first two entries of stats. My primary aim is to 'peak fitness', at the beginning of April.


‘Thinking is what gave humans ascendancy. But overthinking is threatening to bring us down. 

We need a completely new relationship with our thoughts. Instead of viewing the world and our experience as we think they ought to be, we need to treat them as they actually are. We need to recognise when we are ruining a day, a week, a moment or a relationship with catastrophic thoughts and judgments, and understand that often it is the thought itself that makes us feel bad, not the experience itself.’
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Although humans have the beautiful ability of creativity, forward thinking, planning and designing. It is also the reason that our minds can be unhappy and full of despair. Whilst we can plan creation of wonderful joy, we can also foresee a lack of this, resulting in bad, negative thinking. By living life, it may be best to avoid introspective thoughts, and so concentrate on what we experience…

‘Critical thinking has undoubtedly advanced our cause and become one of the essential assets of being so brilliantly human, but introspective thinking – our near constant self-evaluation, who we are, where we fit, how we compare – is becoming one of the most destructive aspects of modern life. We must purge it.’

I am an Arsenal fan. Depressing times at the moment, has led me to follow my 'Second team', closely, La Viola. Thursday evening, Fiorentina also played away in Germany, in the Europa League. A solid, defensive performance was iced with a scintillating free-kick by Federico Bernardeschi. My prediction is that he has such talent, Fiorentina will not be able to keep him. He will lead Juventus to success in the Champion's League.


Federico Bernardeschi - ‘il migliore’



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