It was my 70th birthday and I said I wasn't feeling too well. My son wanted a restaurant and things, I said I wasn't up to at all that, so he said ‘let's just go out for a ride in the car’. Because I love the sea, so he said they'll take me to the sea, took me to Walton on the Naze and there's a bikers cafe there, actually, it's Hell's Angels bikes and all the bikers there. 

And I used to ride in my youth when I was young. I did used to ride on the back, because my friend, her boyfriend was in a group of Angels and they would let me ride on the back of their bikes. So that's what I used… they used to take me for rides when I was young. And I've always loved it. And I've always remembered it. 

But Daniel said to me on that day ‘Mum, do you want a ride?’ And I went ‘yes’. So he said ‘alright then, I don't believe I'm doing this, but I'm just going to go in’. And he asked, and they were all Hells Angels and their people in there and he just went in and they just said ‘you're not a Hells Angel, are you?’ He said ‘no, but I've got a very strange request’. 

And he said ‘the lady in the wheelchair really wants to have a ride’. Anyway, cutting a long story short, they arranged for this man, Dave, Dave the Donk he was called, that's his nickname in the group, and he had a trike but it was still like a double saddle, so you still had to climb on it.
So anyway, he said ‘now I know there's nothing off you so I don’t know how we get you from the wheelchair onto the motorbike’. And he said ‘there’s nothing of you so I can pick you up if you don't mind and I can sit you on’. So I said ‘no, no, it's alright, I can do it’. 

So I got out of my wheelchair, walked over to the bike and climbed up, got my dress up like that and just climbed on. I was so delighted and so insistent that I did it, you know, I had to do it properly myself. 
And he took me all along the coast road, just sounding his horn and waving, you know. And it was the most wonderful experience I could ever have in a long, long time, many years. Then he took me around the town and then back along the front and I was in my element. I think the adrenaline took over. I think that completely took over my body so I’d got all this energy. And that was one of my last wishes before I die. And that happened on my 70th birthday. 

And he was so amazing. You know when you picture something in your mind? It outweighed all of that because I was experiencing it.

And he was saying ‘tell me if I'm going too fast’ and I'm ‘faster, faster!’ 

It doesn't matter… if you're able to do anything and you want to do it, you can talk to your family or friends, and if it's something you want and you can physically do it, then please do it. Please please do it. Because you can and it makes you feel so much better for such a long time, and I'm still feeling it in my heart now. It's in my soul. So the memories I've got.