Todays news included the following link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/8272794.stm The legal side of disability is not my strong point so I do not want to comment so strongly in an area I have less knowledge on. Despite this it is too strong a story to ignore. Overall I invite comments to the simple question of whether this… Continue Reading
Daily Perspective
Fabian society: Manchester
Just want to thank my good friend Graham Witham for mentioning martynsibley.com on the Manchester Fabian society website. He linked my “political rant” blog. Graham is a political guru of many proportions both with his policy work at one of the large childrens charities, and also in his spare time for the Labour party. He… Continue Reading
Training Day
I want to press some bigger points around disability and today I certainly did. I did something I have never before, more to come… I also want to maintain the familiarity of my blogs and randomness I get up to. Hence I have introduced you to Shaz from work (Bhav, her counterpart will appear soon… Continue Reading
Germany Trip
Well another successful trip away. It sounds terrible but it really is so great when transportation goes well with the wheelchair. As always the blog shows the personal side to the trip, the flickr album shows the sites we saw and the video shows the people and hilarity. Needless to say we had a great… Continue Reading
Howzat!!!
Well another busy period since I last checked in from Brighton. Work was very busy as I am off this week, so was getting things tied up. Saturday I thoroughly enjoyed the cricket despite the absolute thrashing England received. The video shows the day. Saturday night I had Shaz and Bhav over for food and… Continue Reading
Wiser words – article 1
Why is disability an issue? Poverty, access and inclusion The first wiser words article is here! It’s a blog to grab you today, but is copied in the wiser words section too. Please comment or question me further! When I am training many do not see why there are issues for disabled people. When I… Continue Reading
Update and the taxi card scheme
I think the video tells todays story really. Quick summary since Sunday is the vans half fixed but needs new wiper system, I’m debating leaving it there while I’m away next week in Germany. This way I don’t have to worry about driving it half fixed and then getting it to the garage while trying… Continue Reading
Lets push things forward
Since my last blog I carried out training in Bristol, drove back to mums, blew out my candles, hit St.Ives town (slept Friday night), then visited my grandparents and aunty, picked my mum up from her work reunion and met many people I knew from yrs gone by there, had dinner in the Turkish restaurant… Continue Reading