Isn't it funny how time passes and memories seem to get more vivid and stronger? The memory of the shock, emptyness, the sheer sadness, the memory of that feeling of "I can't cry any more"! The memory of the wishing it was a very sick joke and the constent reminder it is reality!
Two years have past, in those two years I have laughed and cried in your memory. I have smiled when I have seen or heard certain things, have made savage friends with your help, because we seem to have one huge thing in common, we have all been toched by you, but most of all I have missed you. When I say you, I am talking about John Broz, even when I think of his name, I smile.
John was an amazing singer, fab dj and an amazing person I was lucky enough to call my friend. John always backed me up when others would get on to me :) and had an ability to light up a room by merely walking into it. He was always on top form, never was grumpy, if he was I never saw it!
Sunday, September 29, 2013
Sunday, March 31, 2013
It's 2013 you say?
I know I haven't blogged in ages, shame on me, I know, hopefully this post is gonna be the restart of many more...
As many of you will know I am a wheelchair user. On Friday March 22nd I had to get from Cork to Mayo as I was performing in the Ballina Arts Centre and then heading up to Donegal to perform in the Black Box in Letterkenny.
So I traveled from Cork to Dublin by train with no problem, I then got on a train from Dublin to Westport needing to change at Manulla Junction to get to Ballina. The staff in Dublin were aware of this as were the staff on the train. There was another wheelchair user in the same carriage as myself, she was assisted off the train a stop or two before mine. I got to Manulla Junction, my work colleague got off the train and saw the ramp on the platform and went to hold the other train. Next thing the train I was still on pulled away, I pressed the assistance intercom, it beeped and beeped and beeped again, next stop was Castlebar!
I was assisted off at Castlebar by an Irish Rail dude who said to my assistant "oh we weren't expecting a wheelchair" I was fuming and said "really? I wasn't expecting to be here"! In hind sight I should have said, "funny, my chair wasn't expecting to be here. So he continued talking to my assistant, eventually he listened to me and arranged for a taxi to bring us to Ballina.
This actually happened in Ireland in 2013!
As many of you will know I am a wheelchair user. On Friday March 22nd I had to get from Cork to Mayo as I was performing in the Ballina Arts Centre and then heading up to Donegal to perform in the Black Box in Letterkenny.
So I traveled from Cork to Dublin by train with no problem, I then got on a train from Dublin to Westport needing to change at Manulla Junction to get to Ballina. The staff in Dublin were aware of this as were the staff on the train. There was another wheelchair user in the same carriage as myself, she was assisted off the train a stop or two before mine. I got to Manulla Junction, my work colleague got off the train and saw the ramp on the platform and went to hold the other train. Next thing the train I was still on pulled away, I pressed the assistance intercom, it beeped and beeped and beeped again, next stop was Castlebar!
I was assisted off at Castlebar by an Irish Rail dude who said to my assistant "oh we weren't expecting a wheelchair" I was fuming and said "really? I wasn't expecting to be here"! In hind sight I should have said, "funny, my chair wasn't expecting to be here. So he continued talking to my assistant, eventually he listened to me and arranged for a taxi to bring us to Ballina.
This actually happened in Ireland in 2013!
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