Spinal Column: Melanie Reid
I am a regular reader of Melanie Reid’s weekly Spinal Column in The Times Magazine on Saturday. If you are unaware of her, I quote from…
Flexzi for iPads
I saw these cute Flexzi stands for kids who can’t easily hold their computer gadgets – iPads, phones, games consoles, remotes and so on. Fabulous idea…
Atomos at the Sadlers Wells
I love going to the Sadlers Wells: it’s both wonderfully accessible and the UK’s leading modern dance venue. For a wheelchair user, there are well positioned…
More mechanical malfunction …
Eek, hoist breakdown alert – just a few months after the last one! The legs stopped working – no opening in/out to go around furniture. Sigh.…
2012 Archive 17: An Uncomfortable Year
I write these annual health updates to keep a log of how my illness progresses year on year. It’s so easy to forget as time passes,…
Recommending Birkdale Neuro-Physiotherapy Clinic
My physio, Farshideh Bondarenko, is expanding into newer, bigger, premises. It’s been a longtime ambition of hers to do this and she will be providing additional,…
2011 Archive 16: Chronic Ill-Health
2011: not my worst year but oh, so far from my best, with a series of niggling problems, two relapses necessitating hospital treatment and ending with…
2010 Archive 15: My Reality Sucks
I haven’t been writing so much in 2010 because life has been frustrating due to a series of small setbacks that have merged and forced my…
Stiletto Wheels 