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"Pin your Tweet for Nick"

“Pin your Tweet for Nick”

I have to thank Sally Cronin for the idea…..and it is both simple and brilliant. I would never have thought of it! Why not, she suggested, ask if people would use their ‘pinned tweet’ facility on Twitter to support the campaign to raise funds towards the cost of the Mountain Trike, an off-road wheelchair that is self-propelled? The GoFundMe total is currently at £1265…over a quarter of the total…

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There, back and other stuff...

There, back and other stuff…

A productive and very wet weekend is over, and I am once more home, just long enough for a coffee, with a suitcase full of laundry, memories to cherish and an interesting selection of things on my to-do list… including the necessity for getting the heating and the fence fixed pretty quickly, both of which seem to have given up the ghost in my absence. We have seen some spectacular landscapes and…

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Look what you've done....

Look what you've done.... #RBH #UKABIF

I walked in, having finished the morning’s work before I would normally have left the house. It is almost like having a day off. The dog looked at me reproachfully from under the sofa cushions… at least until I picked up the leash. She hadn’t been happy about my early morning sortie without her, long before the hour when she would normally have been up and about. Ever hopeful, she had still…

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Flying high

I don’t really need to say much about these videos… my sons were skydiving for charity  yesterday. Nothing I could write says more than their faces.The two of them have been through so much together over the past few years… it seems right they should have done this too.

The first is Nick… you may know his story and know why this is such a special moment.

Nick falling from sky ►

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First Night Design | Sky Diving with Nick and Alex Verron for Charity

First Night Design | Sky Diving with Nick and Alex Verron for Charity

Reach for the Sky Binder

This is a special shout-out for British brothers Nick and Alex Verron who are undertaking a sky dive this Saturday in aid of the Make-A-Wish Foundation®.

Their mother, Sue Vincent, writes:

My sons are jumping for charity. Nick had decided the jump would make a nice birthday treat for his brother and paid the deposit, but raising money for a good cause was a major part…

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The problem with sons...

The problem with sons…

“What in God’s name made you come up with that idea?”

“‘Possum ergo facit,’” my son replies. “‘I can therefore…’” It stands to reason. There are many things Nick cannot do since the attack that changed all our lives. He has had a rough year so far; a year which should have begun beautifully began very badly and the fallout has been hard, leaving him in a dark place for a long time. My younger son…

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On the feeder

The bird feeder at my son’s home is a veritable maelstrom of activity these days with whole flocks of young starlings vying for position and supremacy. We watch them every morning before my son gets out of bed, and occasionally I remember to have the camera to hand.

Nick, of course, sets up the tripod and takes fabulous pictures. I tend to snap away through the glass of the window, which may not…

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You can go off people....

You can go off people….

After a couple of days, camera in hand with my son Nick in his garden, I was feeling quite pleased with some of the shots I had taken of the birds on the feeder.

The he showed me his.

‘Waste no more time‘, he wrote… well, he isn’t.

These low-resolution versions don’t do his photographs justice, not at all. They lose clarity and you really need to see them on his flickr page hereto see why I am…

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