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Barnet

Prosthetic Perils

Event type: Monthly Meetings
Date: 1st October 2026
Time: 10:30 am
Venue: Ewen Hall
Cost: Free

Andy Smith is a double-amputee who suggests that life with a disability - whilst often challenging - can have its lighter side.

Since losing his lower right arm and leg in an accident three decades ago, he has had many adventures at home and abroad - though some adventures are best avoided! 

During this presentation of pithy, entertaining poetry and commentary Andy shares about childhood years when, in an extraordinary way, wartime recollections of a WW1 soldier and a WW2 fighter pilot helped to prepare him for personal trials to come.War is a grim business - but romance doesn’t come to a grinding halt and nor does British humour.