Andrew Greenhalgh, 74, from Great Baddow, Essex
Switching over the TV channel, the familiar tune of Helicopter ER chimed loudly from the speakers.
‘Is that actually real Grandad?’ my grandson Arthur, now nine, asked.
Coming to my house in the second lockdown for over three months, Arthur liked to stay up a little later than his mum, my daughter Katie, now 39, let him.
So we could watch the emergency show together.
He was obsessed with the idea of the air ambulance.
‘Of course, it’s real,’ I replied, thinking back to the times that I too had flown high in the sky.
Living an adventurous lifestyle, I’d cycled back to the UK from Australia, been skiing in Austria and spent winter in Japan, went solo in a glider at 16 and bought myself a microlight in 2019, flying like a bird over the UK.
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