Help! Wheeling Slopes …
I had tickets to see four events at this year’s London Jazz Festival. Sadly, due to a diabolical cold, I attended only one: the Arild Andersen…
Assisted Dying and Right To Die Legislation
With comments from yet another Lords debate making me think about it, I took a quick look back at previous pieces that I’ve written on the…
Rich Versus Poor Disability Campaigning
I have been offline for a few days – flattened with a cold. So ridiculous. Something which pre-illness I would’ve shrugged off now confines me to…
National Gallery & Cut, 45 Park Lane
Continuing to push my Balder (electric wheelchair) boundaries, I went along to see Facing The Modern at The National Gallery last weekend – on until 12…
FGM: Daughters Of Eve
FGM: Female Genital Mutilation is not a topic directly relevant to my blog but it is directly relevant to my life and that of all women,…
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…
Thinking Outside The Box
We had a fabulous celebration lunch over the weekend in a private room of the gastro pub adjacent to the St Pancras Renaissance, The Betjeman Arms. What…
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…
Stiletto Wheels 