Extreme Clowning - A look back at 2012

Extreme Clowning
A look back at

2012

 

 SHOWS

Holiday on ice

Enzo has Cerebral Palsy and does a HUGE amount for the community,

so every now and then we take him out on a trip

he has always wanted to see ice skating live.

Mugenkyo Drummers

This was Totally amazing

Jimmy felt the rhythm of the drums through his feet and up through his chest

his tapping along was in perfect time - all the way through,

and we got to play the drums afterwards - thank you guys

calendar girls - funded by Lisa Riley

Another memorable show

this was kindly funded by Lisa herself - who Jimmy has a huge fondness for

This taught about cancer and how it effects different people

Talon – the best of the Eagles

Enzos favourite band

another fantastic night

Kevin Bloody Wilson

3 Tickets donated by Kevin himself

i have never seen Alex laugh so much

almost to the point of choking

pure magic!

Long nose puppets – penguin

Such a beautiful show

lovely pacing for interpreting

fun characters and a non complicated fun story

thumbs up all round

and we got to feel the puppets - fantastic!

The circus of horrors

One of the highlights of the year for me

was Jimmy meeting Chuy the Wolf boy

and also for the first time jimmy felt the pain of the circus of horrors

normally he would just sit there and take it in - but this year if he thought something was gross he would hide behind his hands an amazing night

All of the above shows tickets were donated by either the theatre, the performers or the production company

OTHER EVENTS

star wars episode 1 in 3D

Enzo has only ever seen 1 star wars film!

so we had to change that

Extreme Clowning invited to the London Toy Show

My parents went for me as i was at work -

1 year i aim to take Jimmy

Going to the Fair

Enzo has a dream to go to Disneyland Paris

but has NEVER been on any rides

so we started at the fair-

i have never heard a grown 
man scream so much

Jimmy meets Mugly

This dog is a total legend

he is so calm and patient with Jimmy

he lets him stroke him and feel him

without any fuss.

such a fantastic temperament

Jimmy used to be quite weary of dogs

but he loves them all now -

thanks to Mugly

Star Wars day

Jimmy has never seen star wars

but loves to feel the characters

A huge thank you to Nathan, and the U.K Garrison

for organising this for us

Discover Dogs

Another great day

Jimmy wants a pug dog - and he wants to call it pig!

We also spent a lot of the day stroking larger dogs

to show jimmy that not all big dogs are dangerous

Penny's grand day out – Harrods, and Snog

Free cream teas at Harrods

then a free frozen yoghurt

which was a new discovery for penny

a lovely day for a lovely lady

star wars through touch project started

This project has put me in contact with John Coppinger

who is making me a fibre glass Jabba face from the original mould

to use with Alex

totally amazing

I cant imagine watching star wars and having no ideas about what the characters look like

Alex can hear but has never seen, so he knows the story's and we add to that with toys,props and costumes

its an on going discovery

Peterborough Heritage weekend

Jimmy loves to learn

and this weekend is always amazing

its full of costumes and props that we can feel

its free

and we can get there by bus!

BONUS

Peterborough Arts festival
The arts festival totally blew me away

there was so much there that jimmy could access

i didn't want it to end

we met old lady's that rode shopping trolleys

a man that puts elastic bands on his head

and at last we got to feel a bed of nails

baking with Claire

Something that Claire started to do with Jimmy

and he totally loves it

Ripley's London

Ripley's was great

and really opened jimmy up to the strange world that we live in

we felt a knitted car,

sat in the worlds biggest chair,

and he found a statue which he thought looked like my mother-

hence why he is cuddling it!

designing 007

Fergus has a little bit of sight

which is just as well as they was very strict here with photos and touching

but Fergus had an amazing time

there was a lot to see

We did this on the week that he visited

he was so excited

he only has 2 support at week at home

Madame TusSSauds

Enzo had always wanted to go here

so we visited tussauds and the movie museum on the same day

London film museum

A lovely place and definitely worth a visit

they have currently made things more accessible for blind people

hope to go there with jimmy one day

London zoo

WOW!

We was told we could only stroke the rabbits but ended up stroking

rabbits, mere cats,giant tortoises and feeding the lemurs

a huge thank you to Susie, Seb and Lucy

the zoo keepers for there help

our day was made so much better thanks to you guys

(also a huge thank you to the lemurs, and dirk, dolly and Delores for letting us all into your houses)

Nene valley railway

Jimmy loves trains

And why we haven't done this before i will never know

we went for a ride on the Nene valley and then we changed onto Thomas

Jimmy loved all the old interior

and the smell bought back memories

Little people U.K convention

So honoured to be involved with Little people U.K

Warwick and his family are such lovely people and help extreme clowning out a lot, its always nice to pay it back x

strictly come dancing cartoon auction

A huge thank you to Lisa and Robin for there help with this

the money raised paid for our trip to London zoo

and several days out in December

Peterborough Zombie walk

What a fun day this turned out to be

Jimmy was a bit apprehensive at first

but as soon as he knew dressing up was involved he was in!

he met lots of new people

and was very interested in peoples reactions

Fireworks

This was a lovely night

Thank you to the lions club for there discount

Jimmy had not been to a proper fireworks display before

he love the smells and the bangs

and the pretty colours

Father Christmas visit
This by far was the most emotional trip of the year
We traveled to London to meet the REAL father Christmas
who presented Jimmy with an action man that he had when he was a little boy
my parents came and Phil Rubery who is one of our main contributors

All of the above trips were funded either totally or partly by ourselves, Phil Rubery.

JIMMY DISCOVERS
heres a few of the things that Jimmy discoverd for the first time in 2012

Vinyl toys

Jimmy loves toys

and he gets so much out of them

they relax him

they teach him

they educate him

they amuse him

and they keep him company!

Lush

We spent a good 45 minutes in lush with Jimmy feeling and smelling everything

the lady was really helpful

and showed him anything he wanted to see

Indian food

After a good few years Jimmy has overcome his fear of curry and is now making up for it!

Mexican food

All the things that we did over half term and apparently Jimmy spices was his favourite!

African and Caribbean food - thank you Nick at Embe

We love Embe

it is our favourite place to eat

We told Jimmy about Embe and that they cooked food

that Bob Marley used to eat (Jimmy loves Bob Marley)

so we went there for Jimmy's Birthday and jimmy tried plantain and jerk chicken and he loved it.

The three stooges

Jimmy loves slapstick

any visual comedy works really well with jimmy

and he had never heard of the three stooges so i felt it was only right that he was told

so i bought these toys to help me

and i interpreted the 2012 film for him and he loved it



Educational

Peterborough Regional College
During 2011/2012
Myself and Jimmy have done several talks / question/answer sessions
at Peterborough regional college.
These have been for students studying communication and health and social care.
We try to make the talks fun and interactive - using props and videos.
We also get the students to try signing to Jimmy
Jimmy loves doing these talks as they give him a chance to meet new people

 

DONATIONS FROM

Phil Rubery

Gary Starr

 real camera Manchester

 monkey business

 suck U.K

 Lunatik

A huge thank you to all of the people who help us.
Without them our work would not be possible
A special thank you to Lisa and Riley who supported us during 
there time on Strictly and
helped us raise money to fund 3 days out