Fat, fifty, foolhardy and flying!

I'm thoroughly enjoying my midlife crisis so far.  I've reinvented myself as a nurse and am now working as a Staff Nurse at Princess Alice Hospice in Esher, with plans to move to Wales later in the year.  I celebrated my 50th birthday last October, and thought I would mark it with a mad venture and raise some money for the Hospice at the same time. Not for me the effort and discipline of training for a marathon.  Instead, I decided to let gravity (and some young hunk) do all the work for me.

So, on Sat 2nd April, I jumped out of an aeroplane, strapped to a young well-trained skydiving hunk called Richard.  What an experience!   I was in the last group to go up, so I had a long wait watching everyone else make their descents .  The day had dawned sunny and calm, but I didn't get in the aircraft till after 5pm, by which time clouds had rolled in and the wind picked up.   Once in the aircraft I didn't have time to be nervous;  I was too busy listening for instructions and watching everyone else.  And then we were out and flying. I wanted to do it in slow motion, to savour the experience. Fabulous. 

Friends and family have been very generous, so I have easily reached and passed my target, and now I'm wondering whether I can achieve double my target. I can only do that with your help.  I paid all the costs of making the jump myself (hence my donation below), so any money donated goes directly to supporting the needs of our patients.

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