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03 May 2008
BBC trainee, mobile phone, email SA, Dog, Car
Since my last entry, the challenge has had an unexpected visit from a BBC trainee film buff, her name is Nicola. I bought the earpiece I needed to enable me to use my mobile telephone. Today I received an email from a new friend in South Africa who hopefully will be joining us. Claire, one of my support team has said that she could bring Megan her Springer Spaniel and has also offered to bring her car as back up.
On Wednesday afternoon I had a phone call from the BBC asking, because I had an interesting story to tell, could they send one of their trainee photo buffs, well she did not say film buff but I am not too sure of the correct term, over on Thursday arriving about 1100. “No problem”, I said, “I have done it before”. My support team and I had already arrange a meeting on the Thursday, to discuss such things as the best way to lift me from chair, to stretcher and the other small details, such as what they would eat, how the best way to do all of my personal while on the challenge, ect, ect. Because our film buff was now coming, I asked them to wear their KAP tee-shirts. Looks good on photographs... I did not realise the photographs were to be on film.
Nicola, that was the name of the film buff, arrived at 1120, almost on time! We had a chat, the puppies, Jack and Molly introduced themselves, and so did part of my team for the challenge, Margaret, Claire, Emmanuelle and Pauline. Nicola wanted to do the filming in the garden, I have a nice garden, even if I do say so myself so we moved out there. .
Due to the weather been a bit on the showery side, we decided that I would, for the first half of the filming, wear my florescent green jacket, my safety helmet, safety elbow and knee pads. The hand protectors are not suitable for wheelchair use. Nicola decided that the actual putting on of these items were to form part of her filming story. Pauline was elected to be in this part of the filming. Having never put on the knee and elbow protectors, I will leave it up to you to visualize what that part of the filming was like! And yes it did rain.
Once I got all the gear on it was decided that the interview would take place on the garden lawn. The AA went on no messing, did I say no messing, guess who forgot to have the lawn cleaned of dog mess. Yes, me...
We did the interview and then I said do you really want to want to see this chair move? The answer was of course yes. I got another team member Claire, to take off all my fancy gear and Nicola and I went to the next avenue from mine and took lots of film of me coming towards her and away from her at about 8 mph. By this time, the heaven had opened up again and we both made a mad dash for home just in time for lunch, and guess what, Nicola want to film me been given my luck by Pauline. We parted company at about 1330.
We all had an interesting 3 hours, and I know Nicola enjoyed herself very much...
BBC trainee, mobile phone, email SA, Dog, Car
Since my last entry, the challenge has had an unexpected visit from a BBC trainee film buff, her name is Nicola. I bought the earpiece I needed to enable me to use my mobile telephone. Today I received an email from a new friend in South Africa who hopefully will be joining us. Claire, one of my support team has said that she could bring Megan her Springer Spaniel and has also offered to bring her car as back up.
On Wednesday afternoon I had a phone call from the BBC asking, because I had an interesting story to tell, could they send one of their trainee photo buffs, well she did not say film buff but I am not too sure of the correct term, over on Thursday arriving about 1100. “No problem”, I said, “I have done it before”. My support team and I had already arrange a meeting on the Thursday, to discuss such things as the best way to lift me from chair, to stretcher and the other small details, such as what they would eat, how the best way to do all of my personal while on the challenge, ect, ect. Because our film buff was now coming, I asked them to wear their KAP tee-shirts. Looks good on photographs... I did not realise the photographs were to be on film.
Nicola, that was the name of the film buff, arrived at 1120, almost on time! We had a chat, the puppies, Jack and Molly introduced themselves, and so did part of my team for the challenge, Margaret, Claire, Emmanuelle and Pauline. Nicola wanted to do the filming in the garden, I have a nice garden, even if I do say so myself so we moved out there. .
Due to the weather been a bit on the showery side, we decided that I would, for the first half of the filming, wear my florescent green jacket, my safety helmet, safety elbow and knee pads. The hand protectors are not suitable for wheelchair use. Nicola decided that the actual putting on of these items were to form part of her filming story. Pauline was elected to be in this part of the filming. Having never put on the knee and elbow protectors, I will leave it up to you to visualize what that part of the filming was like! And yes it did rain.
Once I got all the gear on it was decided that the interview would take place on the garden lawn. The AA went on no messing, did I say no messing, guess who forgot to have the lawn cleaned of dog mess. Yes, me...
We did the interview and then I said do you really want to want to see this chair move? The answer was of course yes. I got another team member Claire, to take off all my fancy gear and Nicola and I went to the next avenue from mine and took lots of film of me coming towards her and away from her at about 8 mph. By this time, the heaven had opened up again and we both made a mad dash for home just in time for lunch, and guess what, Nicola want to film me been given my luck by Pauline. We parted company at about 1330.
We all had an interesting 3 hours, and I know Nicola enjoyed herself very much...
