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One or two of you have met my daughter Steph and I suspect, as most of us seem to be getting on a bit, we all know of someone that has suffered a stroke. My daughters mother-in-law, Hazel, was retired but drove to a stable every day to look after and ride her horse. A couple of days before Christmas, she left the stable to go home and had a stroke while driving along a narrow fenland road. The car went off the road, took out two telegraph poles came to a stop in a ditch and she had to be cut out of her Toyota Yaris by the fire brigade.

Steph wanted to do something and, having inherited her father's sense of adventure and lunacy she's doing a freefall parachute jump to raise funds for the Stroke Association. This isn't one of these tandem jumps where someone is attached to an experienced sky diver, she'll be taken up to 13,000 feet, shoved out of the plane but will have a pair of instructors with her, but not attached, just in case she forgets to pull the ripcord when the time comes. So, if anyone feels inclined to bung in a quid or two, how to do it is here https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/jump-for-hazel.

Thanks, I'll be there with still and video cameras to prove she actually did it......

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also - please post the pics

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I will, before, during and after.

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Very happy to do that. “There but for the grace of God”.

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That's right and it's a pretty horrible thing to happen to anyone. They think she will be paralysed down her left side so it's doubtful she'll ever be able to ride her horse again. The only fortunate thing about the whole episode is that one of the other women, a nurse, had followed her out of the stables and saw her go off the road, otherwise she could have been there for hours before anyone saw her car in the ditch.

My daughter has asked me to thank everyone she has never met for contributing.

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How is this collection for a good cause going Gilbert?

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Up to £1126 at the moment so has gone beyond the original target of a grand. Still got just under two months to go before the jump date of 22 April so no idea what it will get up to by then.

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I put 20usd in just now. Thanks for steering me in the right direction on at least 3 occasions now. Much obliged.

Looking forward to the videos of a presumably sensible person jumping out of a perfectly good airplane! :)

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Thanks, didn't realise you were on here too Lefty.

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You mentioned it on another forum, that being one of the 3 times so far you've steered in me in the right direction.

Browsing around the various threads here, I'm beginning to understand exactly why you're so knowledgeable. Thanks again for helping me get along with my P38. :)

Once I've sorted out the current project, I'm sure I'll have more stupid questions. Lulz/cheers!