Poor Access Can Kill…?
Found myself both empathising and laughing with Mik Scarlet in The Huff Post this week: My Own Paralympic Legacy or How Poor Access Can Kill. I…
Jane McCormick: Self Portrait with Borrowed Smile
I really love this Self Portrait with Borrowed Smile by Jane McCormick, seen at Disability Arts Online: I used to be a smiley person but years…
Aloneness …
Aloneness: the acute awareness of being alone and different from those about us. This is not about loneliness and isolation for which there is remedy but…
It never stops pouring …
Rain is everyone’s go-to for misery analogy, no? And, hey, if a bandwagon’s passing– Whilst the rest of country is looking forward to Spring, Summer and…
Bottling it …
I am not in my happy place today. We had tickets for Lear at The National on Saturday and missed it because I … nope, no…
Walk In My Shoes, Or Not …
Reading one disability campaigner’s blog yesterday, The Big Benefits Row by Sue Marsh, I was, amidst the tale of her truly woeful treatment from our national…
Open Day at the Birkdale Neuro-Physio Clinic
I’ve written before – Recommending Birkdale – about my wonderful physio, Farshideh Bondarenko, and, most recently, about her move to larger premises in West London with…
2013 Archive 18: A ‘Healthy’ Year
Listening to the rain, sitting here, waiting for my broken iMac to power down, I’m thinking that with just the one hospital treatment week in late…
Stiletto Wheels 