Me and my mate MS

  At the weekend we had our fortnightly video chat with my bestie and her hubby who live in Australia. Twenty six years ago they embarked on a tour of Europe and other countries but based themselves in the UK. To cut a long story short my bestie (LM) started working at a temp at the company I used to work for. They also lived just half a mile down the road from us. Soon we became best of friends and the four of us spent an awful lot of time together. Then after approximately nine months of first living in High Wycombe and then in London LM fell pregnant and they moved back home. Home was in fact New Zealand but following the devastating earth quake in Christchurch back in February 2011 they moved to Western Australia. We have kept in touch ever since with several visits by my bestie as well as one visit from them both. The Dean Team even went out to WA in 2013 where I even had my own hydrotherapy pool😎 Next year they will be making the trip over to the UK once ag...

On the 6th July hubby and I made our annual trip to Naidex which is held at the NEC in Birmingham and is a show about all the things that are available for the disabled. We arrived just after 12pm and had our lunch which we bought with us, we are so mindful of the cost of diesel and now that we are living on Hayling Island it is approximately 300 miles there and back. Thankfully my Motability van does 40 miles to the gallon. This year there were the normal suspects who had a stand, Motability were there, many of the bed manufacturers, wheelchairs and power chairs plus an awful lot of independent living stuff. It was the independent living that we had the most interest in and one where we could speak to the stall holders. Then of course there were a couple of key note speakers that we were really interested in. Baroness Tanni Grey-Tompson who spoke about her career plus all the work she carries out as a cross bench member in the House of Lords she also devoted 20 minutes for a Q & A...