Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
With my house project building to a crescendo of activity in the latter part of this year, I haven’t been able to be as active as…
Slick Chicks: Side Fastening Panties For Diverse Bodies
Sharing this here because doesn’t this seem like a great idea? Slick Chicks: Side Fastening Panties For Diverse Bodies. SLICK CHICKS WAS STARTED WITH THE MISSION…
Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier
What a fabulous place The Design Museum, in Kensington, is for a wheelchair user and seeing the exhibition, Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier, on at The Design Museum,…
Adapting My Home: Stay Or Move?
In 1998, as a consequence of the rapid onset of a chronic neurological illness, I became a full-time, non-standing, wheelchair user. At the time, I –…
2017 Health Archive 22: Remembering August 2001 …
It’s been twenty years since everything changed for me in terms of my health. 1997 was the last year of my ‘normal’ life. 2017 was the…
RIP Sweet Cousin …
My younger cousin died a couple of days ago, on Sunday 3 December 2017. Whilst not unexpected, being the inevitable culmination of a long illness, all…
Chronic Illness: (T)Rough Rolling
Living a good quality life with chronic illness is as much about maintaining an equable temperament towards the peaks and troughs of persistent relapses as it…
The Young Vic Theatre, London.
Over the past two weekends, I’ve visited the Young Vic Theatre twice to see Nina: A Story About Me And Nina Simone with Josette Bushell-Mingo and…
