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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Thursday 18 April 2019

The pencil

There is ALWAYS more than one essence, of something that exists in reality.
It is best to consider many things as contrasts between themselves, and their extreme opposite possibility (essence AND opposing essence)! 
OK, we can consider an object (anything), but we may only recognise it’s essences or characteristics through a singular aspect, considering only the contrast from itself back to what it is not. Only when we look at a number of different aspects, and break them down, can we stop at some level, gaining a greater feel of all that truly is. Let us consider all aspects, together as a whole, and recognise the object for what we truly have. 
A very simple example...


For instance, we have a pencil with which we can write (the main essence). The pencil is wooden, and painted yellow (two more essences). Now, at the top tip, we could find an opposing essence of a pink, rubber, eraser. This end directly offers an ‘opposing essence’. It has the ability to completely undo what the initial aim of the pencil was. Not everything will find it’s opposing essence, so close-by, but somewhere, at sometime in our world, an opposition will exist. Everything has an opposition, somewhere… The total sum of opposing aspects equate with the original, main aspect’s essence, but may not negate them if they are not attributed to do such.

Sorry, if that reads confusingly. 

Last weekend the EHT allowed us one of the closest, photographic representations of a ‘black hole’.
A large telescope was needed. Very large, trans-global. The Event Horizon Telescope is a combination of several huge telescopes, situated across the globe, working together, creating one image.

Finally, we have an answer. Speculation about black holes dates to the early 1900s, when we discovered that light can be warped with fluctuations in gravity. This realization led physicists to theorize that there could be objects in space that have masses and densities so immense that even light, the fastest speed known to man, is trapped in its pull.
Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity claims that as all this energy gets sucked in, it reaches a point at its centre where density reaches an infinite value, creating a gravitational pull nothing can resist. All light and objects are trapped here and can no longer be seen. They call this point the event horizon – the black hole at the centre of the orange loop.

While it all sounds insane, observations made of events that occurred in space would only make sense with Einstein’s framework. Scientists have seen dust clouds and stars interacting with massive gravity waves that they logically assumed would be a black hole. Stars would make loops around an invisible point and slingshot off at great speeds. There are plenty of images of light matter collected around a point suspected to be a black hole, but we’ve never been able to gaze at its core – the event horizon itself, which would put any doubt to rest.
Released on 10 April 2019, the blurred image of a ring of bright orange shed light one of the biggest mysteries of our time. A miracle of technology, data-recording and timing has brought us our first glimpse of a concept that was previously the work of science-fiction.
(explanation) …
... it’s big.
... it’s massive.
... it’s supermassive!

An obvious music link!!!...

Supermassive Black Hole

Let the dogs past! 
Wheelchairs are hugely feared by dogs (and probably other pets too). I often pass the owners and pets. Warned of such panicked canines, in my Rehab Home, I have always been aware of potential problems. As soon as I see an on coming dog and owner, now, I stop. Even passing dogs at an incredible slow speed, seemed to distress many. I don’t want my wheelchair to distress ANYONE or ANYTHING! 

Phillipe Glbert (born 5 July 1982)
Gilbert turned professional in 2003, for the Francaise des Jeux team and has progressed through the Silence-Lotto, BMC, teams and now at Quickstep. He became Professional Road World Champion in 2012, and succeeded last Sunday, racing to Paris-Roubaix victory.
The man deserves huge respect adding this particular race to his almighty list of ‘palmares’. Paris-Roubaix is a cobbled-classic that is usually reserved for big, hard-men with a clear ability of hard-riding on cobbled flatlands. Gilbert has a history of success on a very broad range of course types.

A few highlights of his biggest one-day race victories ...

2006 - Het Volk
2008 - Paris - Tours, Het Volk
2009 - Paris - Tours, Tour of Lombardy 
2010 - Tour of Lombardy, Amstel Gold Race
2011 - Belgium championship, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Amstel Gold, Flèche Wallone, Clasica San Sebastian, Strade Bianche,
2012 - World Championships
2014 - Amstel Gold 
2016 - Belgium championship
2017 - Tours of Flanders, Amstel Gold

2019 - Paris-Roubaix

(A very impressive list)

Above, Gilbert cornering John Lewis in Kingston, competing in the London-Surrey Classic, for BMC.

A screenshot from British Eurosport. 
Riders battle on smoother than previous cobbles, in this year's Paris-Roubaix

‘Hello’
A simple greeting that i always receive from people about town. This politeness is always welcome and i usually share it back, in return. I recognise that I stand out to people, as different. I have no choice. I recognise that it is likely that people are unnerved by approaching a wheelchair user (they know that something is wrong with me, but they do not know what)! Recognition of this fact may hurt me (I, yet again, am reminded that i am different)! I balance this problem, easily, recognising that absolutely no harm is ever intended. I welcome the fact that i am happily greeted.


Notre Dame fire on Monday 15th
My words will fail to describe the tragic, disaster, that you should all already know about. 


A tragic disaster, to such a special place of beauty.


My thoughts are with you Paris. The above photo is greatly upsetting. I finish with a photo from my previous visit, in 2012. Notre Dame must always remembered as the incredible and beautiful cathedral.
Vive le France!




Friday 5 April 2019

Do Your Bit!

Welcome to my blog. It really does vary how regularly i provide posts. 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 :)

I include the above paragraph, as a copy of this blog's introductory text. This is probably not viewed on mobile phones, yet i realise that many, many of you read my blog through mobile devices.

My 6-month sleep was timed conveniently. I remember the joy of buying a music ‘album’. It was always so much more than a collection of songs. Most albums had an essence. One could experience an album a lot more than just hearing the songs. Now, such things have changed. Whilst I may miss purchasing albums in such a way, I now recognise how harmful such consumption of non-biodegradable goods, is to our planet.

I find it depressing that I WILL ALWAYS be the outsider. Acceptance of wheelchairs, and their users, is always growing. However, even once I have progressed out of the need, I will always know myself as ‘different’. No one knows, wants to know, or is able to know my mind. I am alone, and may well be alone forever. I can feel that I am caught in the middle between a ‘nobody’, and ‘myself as I want to be.’



The issue that is shocking/upsetting me the most at the moment, ‘plastic’. It upsets me that humanity was so incredibly slow to realise that there is also a negative aspect to this ‘magical material’. Bakelite was first developed just over a century ago (1907 in USA). It revolutionised almost everything. Modernist design exploded in vast popularity, across the world. Other plastics were soon developed. After two World Wars, nations had only one more ‘final frontier’. Research, Design and Technology continued to develop at such an incredible pace that, just 62 years later, humanity set foot elsewhere, on our moon. Development of everything has continued, at a speed which is seemingly constantly increasing.
It hurts me, that NO-ONE of any global power, has halted (or even ‘slowed’) this development, by recognising that there must be a defect, or a problem. 
We all know the benefits of plastic. It should surprise no-one that there are negative aspects alongside the positive aspects. ALWAYS.
Only very recently, have we largely recognised an effect on the world’s climate. Our news reports to us the horrors of ‘natural disasters’...
Are they really ‘natural’, when humanity has darted away from realities, remaining ignorant of their possibility?
When do we halt, and call ‘EMERGENCY’!!?
Humanity has ‘dug itself a hole’. We cannot be bothered to get out, so we just keep on digging. Governments only exist for up to around 4/5 years. A government is not going to take an action to save us in the next generation, or their children. Leaders only ever think about the current generation!
I am not prepared to be part of ‘the generation who failed humanity’!



I ask you to do your bit!
Whenever I am in the supermarket (centres of consumption), I feel absolutely no hesitation in querying sustainability issues, with head staff. Please do the same. Do not hesitate, shops need customers. As more and more people repeat concerns, changes will happen. Competitor stores will have to follow suit, and slowly industries will change!




Brexit. I sense that even the most unlikely of people may begin to sympathise with Theresa May. I must remind you that she chose to step up to the position of ‘Prime-Minister’ , only because she was obviously considered to be determined enough(bloody-minded enough) by other Tories, to drag this country through a Brexit that was Cameron’s fault. She has not won anywhere near enough General Elections, but no-one has taken her place! This is not a nice process. The rise of Farage, UKIP, and the far-right was allowed, and few people recognise that this is now the 21st Century, we need Progressives not Regressives!  

Britain is led away from Europe, by a Theresa May, who paints her wonderful vision, which only she can see, causing disastrous chaos which affects everyone else.’
...My analysis of...
‘Red Lines’ is the amazing cartoon, by Ella Brown, in recent edition of The TLS.


On a lighter note, I want to promote the Peter Crouch podcast! I am an Arsenal fan, so I was fairly apprehensive to listen (he is ex Tottenham, Liverpool, and Stoke)! It is, however, very good. Well worth a listen! :)