My Blue Badge assessment wasn’t too bad in the end. An observed pavement and stair walk, followed by an interview. I had taken some medical notes and letters with me, which proved helpful and the interviewer asked me lots of questions to extract information to gain as many points as possible.
Today I heard that I had the required number of points (12) and now qualify for a Blue Badge. I had hoped to pick it up this afternoon (as I work in a neighbouring building) but apparently it has to be posted to my home from somewhere in Nottingham (why does it have to be so convoluted?!).
Once I have the Blue Badge I can then apply to my work place parking team (who work in the same building as the Blue Badge assessor) for a parking permit. Until then, you may still see me wobbling about in the streets near my work place …I will try my very best not to fall on my face or get run over whilst waiting for this to be sorted out!
In other news, the four Wilmslow Festive runners are getting some training runs in and wondering what they’ve let themselves in for. It’s rather cold and damp here at the moment, so let’s hope it’s a bit brighter on the 25th!
There was a bit of a kerfuffle earlier in the week when everyone’s race numbers arrived, well, 3 of the 4 arrived as it transpired one doesn’t know her own postcode! Let’s hope she doesn’t have similar problems with the route on the day!
Here’s a map showing the starting point just in case!
I’m hoping to get a little team together to go down and cheer them on – do give me a shout if you’d like to come along.
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