(1) For Pedler, public transport is a way to keep social in retirement: day trips to Kew Gardens and Southend or a night at a restaurant or the theatre.
(2) You’re never free of worry.” At 91 years old, Pedler, who has rheumatoid arthritis, has been using a scooter on buses and trains for more than a decade, first in Oxford and now in London, after moving nearer to her family two years ago.
(3) I t only needs one bad driver to spoil your day,” says Gwyneth Pedler, a scooter user, in London.
(4) When it comes to buses, Pedler stresses useful measures already exist to enable access – for example, a button the driver can press that announces a wheelchair is coming on board so pushchairs can be moved – but drivers need to be told to follow through on them.
(5) I’ve injured my knee like that a couple of times.” For Pedler, now she’s not in Oxford, the tube is another way to stay social but with only a small portion of the underground accessible to wheelchairs and scooters , she relies on help from Transport for All , an organisation that provides advice for disabled travellers in London, to plan her routes.
Peeler
Definition:
(n.) One who peels or strips.
(n.) A pillager.
(n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The physics staff had succeeded in sealing off a vacuum tube for the betatron, and further developments involved field flattening, exposure measurements, collimation, stray electron control, phantom tests, and development of a beam peeler.
(2) In the course of investigation of the relationship between hypersensitivity pneumonitis and the wood industry 45 popple peelers were studied.
(3) Dress makers were mostly affected by nickel, while orange sellers and peelers were positive to orange peel, fragrance mix, balsam of Peru and formaldehyde in varying combinations.
(4) Even now, two years after the expenses scandal first engulfed Parliament, it is this single item that seems to resonate most in the public consciousness as the embodiment of the sense of entitlement that led politicians to make claims for everything from massage chairs to garlic peelers.
(5) The advantages of the potato peeler technic include better immobility of the lesion being curetted, more effective control of bleeding, and greater stability and increased flexibility and movement of the hand holding the curet.
(6) July 6, 2015 Senate Republican leader Harvey Peeler said that he would oppose the bill to remove the flag, saying that his ancestors owned slaves and that taking down the flag cannot change that history.
(7) It is a revealing exercise: two large strawberries, six radishes, one easy peeler (despite the packaging specifying two) each make a portion.
(8) Using a peeler, thinly slice the cucumber until you get down to the seeds, turn the cucumber and repeat the process until all the flesh has been removed.
(9) She keeps a vegetable peeler "like a pencil sharpener" on her desk, along with a bag of carrots, tomatoes and radishes.
(10) The procedure for curettage is discussed and the mechanics of two technics, the pencil technic and the potato peeler technic, are described.
(11) Evidence was previously presented to support the thesis that chronic pain is activated by neuronal elements that make up the multisynaptic short axon core of the reticular system (Andy and Peeler 1985).
(12) Those Smash robots, which used to fall about laughing at potato peelers, must be rusting with chagrin.
(13) Cake forks, coffee spoons, a peeler and a £16.99 clothes airer were among the miscellaneous items Gove reclaimed expenditure on.