Posted on September 4, 2009 by Claire
Over the last few weeks we have been talking to the Opportunities Trust (Cambridgeshire) about what they do and what we do, after they found out about us through Rosie’s crafting.
Reels On Wheels has now become a member of this group which aims
To provide a rich menu of activities and support for people with disabilities [...]
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Posted on September 3, 2009 by Claire
Arriving at Anglers Paradise on Saturday lunch time was like being greeted at a friends house everyone seemed to remember us from our previous visits.
We all had a quick drink with Zyggy and then unloaded the bus and headed straight for the lakes, as Julz had been doing some pole fishing recently she wanted to [...]
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Posted on August 15, 2009 by Claire
We have organised a pair of challenge matches be held over the weekend of Sat 29th and Sun 30th of August (Bank Holiday weekend) at the newly refurbished Peterstone fishery in South Wales (Just over the Severn Bridge)
There will be a match on both the Saturday and the Sunday you can enter one or both enter [...]
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Posted on July 6, 2009 by Claire
Julz and I went off to meet Nick at Moorlands Farm on the friday in the Buddy Bus, the main idea was to give Nick somewhere to have a good nights sleep befor the match.
We all met up at about lunch time and sat down for a cup of tea and a chat and decided [...]
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Posted on June 17, 2009 by Claire
The 24hr fish was upon us so Julz and I set off in a fully packed Buddy Bus with the aim of getting to the fishery by 11am this would give us an hour before the start to get everything sorted …..but things don’t always go to plan do they and the satnav took us [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2009 by Claire
After all the preparation the Festival started for me on Thursday when I went to collect Gary (The Tidalwave) from London so he could attend the festival. We loaded the Buddy Bus and set off for the Manderson Trust on Friday morning where we set about setting up the marquee, BBQs and everything else that [...]
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Posted on May 23, 2009 by Claire
Nick and I have been talking about updating the art work on the Buddy Bus as it was starting to look a bit tired. The question was what were we going to replace the old art work with? Eventually we decided to put two of our biggest supporters on the bus as a big THANK [...]
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Posted on May 16, 2009 by Claire
Monday morning (20th April) I headed off to London to pick up Gary (the Tidalwave) as he was coming for a few days fishing with us. I off course got stuck in the worlds biggest car park (The M25) and took an age getting there, the journey back was far better and after stopping for supplies [...]
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Posted on April 11, 2009 by Claire
As Reels On Wheels have become bigger and better known in the Angling community, we have decided to form a steering committee. This is made up of a cross section of our supporters all keen anglers with interests in many areas of our wonderful sport. We have match anglers, fishery owners, pleasure anglers and sea [...]
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Posted on March 16, 2009 by Claire
One of the members of the Reels On Wheels Forum has his own small lake at his home in Shropshire and has made a wonderful offer to all the members of our forum – they can go along and fish his lake free of charge. Marcus is a wheelchair user himself, has already had part of the lake [...]
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