Caroline, my long-suffering wife, for putting up with football, ultimate frisbee, folk music and so much more over the years
Nick Marfleet - for the concept of ‘reaching your escape velocity’
Andy Davidson - ‘We got another one out, boys!”
Mike Leyton - ‘checking my eyelids for holes’
David Booth - for his patience and remarkable expertise
Paul Gillings - harmonica
Jonathan Evans - cello
Lyn Fredrick - saxophone and flute
John Webster - trumpet
Kelly Bayfield - vocals
Mick Morris, Nick Hart and Brian Sugden for Barleycorn
Andy Caven and Paul Riley for RMC
Debbie Winter for vocal coaching
Chris Allard for guitar lessons
Andy Leonard for photography
Denis Brogan, Monica Murphy, Frank Rollo and Michael Prochak for Flash Company
GP partners and staff at the Creffield Medical Centre; all my patients over the years; doctors, physiotherapists and staff at the Colchester Department of Musculoskeletal, Sport and Exercise Medicine (DOMSEM)
all my colleagues in the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine (BASEM) from whom I learned so much
all players of Ultimate Frisbee (what a great sport!)