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Improve your mind, body and soul, and help our heroes
Discover something to soothe, heal and nurture your mind, body and soul at Swindon’s largest Holistic Health
& Wellbeing Show - The Big One - on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 March at the Marriott Hotel in Pipers Way.
Over 60 exhibitors, workshops, demonstrations health food retailers and representatives of religious
and talks from the UK’s leading practitioners, thera- and philosophical bodies will be on hand, as well as PRICE
pists, readers, retailers, centres and services will be Swindon’s very own fi tness superman Mike Buss. PROMISE
showcasing the best in holistic health and wellbeing. The event is free to enter but a £2 donation to Help
From the NHS Swindon psychology services to for Heroes and Have a Heart will be welcomed.
renowned psychic healers, local youth charities, For details call Graham Barrone on 07593 853321.

Book tells of a life lived with speed
It would be a rare thing to meet a world champion side-car racer, professional trumpet player, motor-bike test
rider, land speed record technician, gold prospector, pioneering business-man and inventor on the same day,
but Juliet Platt meets a man who can chalk up these achievements.
Stan Dibben, 84, said, "my advice Classics are available from Water-
from Lechlade, for life is that you stones and Amazon.
right, published need to win a Stan also gives regular talks
his autobiogra- race slowly not about his life experiences and book
phy Hold On in as quickly as you writing, and can be contacted at:
April 2008 but you can.” [email protected]
would be pushed By knowing
to fi nd it. his own limits, by
“If you go into being self-disci-
Waterstones it’s plined and true to
probably in the himself at every
transport section; turn, Stan reckons
it should really be he's ‘had a good
next to Michael life.’
Schumacher’s, under sporting He began writing his memoirs
autobiographies,” said Stan. after his son Mark, a business
His is a fascinating tale of an management professor at Monash
intrepid side-car racer winning University in Melbourne, Australia,
championships all over the world recommended he do something to
during the 1950s, as well as prepar- keep his mind active.
ing the track for Donald Campbell's "He told me to make a note of
Bluebird land speed record attempt any name or memory that came to
in Australia in 1964. mind, and to fi le it,” said Stan. “After
He also describes his efforts to about 6 months of doing this I had a
transform the mundane supermar- book's worth, so set about writing it
ket shopping trolley from back- while on holiday in Australia.”
breakers to ones that steer 'like a Stan’s second book, a technical
Ferrari,' in the words of the BBC's guide about selecting the right kind
Jeremy Clarkson. of spark plugs for classic engines,
Stan’s book should also ap- has just been published.
pear amongst inspirational titles. Hold On and Sparkplugging the
It certainly pro-
vides interesting
historical insights
into the working
lives of men born
between the wars.
Reflecting on
a career where
one door closed
another always
opened, Stan
Stan in sidecar
action in the 1950s

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