So… Today at 10am I head to Imperial College in London to meet a bunch of engineering students whose objective/challenge is to design me a canoe seat that I won’t fall out of.

Good luck with that!

Massive thanks to Tim Killip and Richard Hendron for organising that, and to Rich in general for organising and coaching a rabble of cyclists into a half decent bunch of canoeists capable of paddling 125 miles in 3 days this weekend.

We all head to Devizes at 2 pm, me driving with 2 very long boats on my roof.

Jerry Day will be with me, in case I continue my run of mishaps… Yesterday I repaid my ongoing gratitude to Dan by crashing through the barrier into his west London premises of the Park Club…. apparently I’m not the first by any stretch.. but the first to actually  own up, and poss the first MALE.. He says.

Yesterday I spent  ages at Great Ormond St hospital discussing my spasms and their resolution. Getting into my standing frame would seem to be the best ongoing remedy, as well as staying fit and not being constipated….there you go then.

I’ve recently spent a fair bit of time at work coaching my optometry graduates to do what they do with the public – good to be back in a work environment actually being an expert at something.

My main objective over the next 3 days is not to get killed or injured on my arm bike on the country roads of Britain. That would screw up my trip to the States in search of therapy for my paralysis  somewhat.

Wish me luck with that. Some have said that I should def not risk it, but I don’t feel I can let down my buddies – that’s the old me kicking in strongly.

Ill update this site with progress..