Up to the Dashwood Mausoleum
Ramblings
BBC
4.5 • 768 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Clare Balding walks to the extraordinary Dashwood Mausoleum, near High Wycombe, with Julia and Lee Clements and their daughter, Cerys. Cerys is nearly six years old and has cerebral palsy, so joins the walk in her off-road buggy. Together Julia and Lee discuss how they have adapted to life with a profoundly disabled child; Julia says she has become a 'fighter', especially for the right to give her daughter blended 'real' food, through the tube in her stomach, and not just formula milk which is the accepted norm. Lee says he once defined himself by his achievements at work, or in running marathons, or going for very long walks whereas, now, he values even the shortest of outings with Cerys - navigating kissing-gates, or pushing her weighty buggy uphill is a joy and a challenge in itself.
Producer: Karen Gregor.
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| 0:38.1 | sounds hello I'm Claire Balding thank you so much for downloading this podcast I hope you |
| 0:43.7 | enjoy ramblings we're on the Ashley and Leighton buzzard ordn't survey mat so 165 which |
| 0:50.8 | 165 I always buy the one in 50,000 because I'm a bit of a cheap skate and you get more map for your money on that. |
| 0:57.0 | And I think, so we're starting at Downley Common. |
| 1:01.0 | We're starting at Downley Common, which is like all good walks, it's right on the edge of this map, unfortunately. |
| 1:07.0 | So Downley's here, so we are about 847-957, give or take. |
| 1:16.2 | And on a bigger map, Downey Common is just north of High Wycombe and West Wickham. |
| 1:22.0 | And I've come here today to meet Lee Clements, Julia Clements, and their daughter, Karris. |
| 1:27.2 | Hello, Karris. And Kiss is in an all-terrain |
| 1:29.9 | buggy because to take Kerriss walking, you need to make sure you can get where you want to go. |
| 1:35.6 | Yes. And just explain why. Well, Kerriss, unfortunately, had an injury just at the time of birth, |
| 1:43.1 | so she has quite severe cerebral palsy so she can't |
| 1:47.5 | walk and she can't swallow but she loves getting outside in the countryside and particularly all |
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