Other than writing this blog for your lovely selves I am leaving my additional projects alone this weekend. Since xmas I planned to think how an online seminar would work, market it to an audience, present the sessions myself and evaluate the feedback. It took a lot of effort but I achieved this and am… Continue Reading
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Wheelchair users Mecca in Paradise – when Martyn stumbled across mar Y sol
Yes, you guessed it, he has been away again! The back story/self justification is 😉 while the sale of my old car funded an amazing trip to the US, I didn’t get much sun and warmth. As you all are fully aware, UK winters hit my energy and health hard. So having completed a few… Continue Reading
I need a holiday
As a good friend once said, you cannot run your body like a gas station, or something of that vibe. Basically life needs to be full of balance. Good sleep, food and exercise alongside fun, spontaneous/planned debauchery and lifes little treats. Occasionally I am guilty of working too much, lacking sleep and eating less healthily…. Continue Reading
I’m now a band manager!
It’s Tuesday night, yet I am sure it is later in the week! I think with my usual routine, the preparation for launching ‘seminar in your slippers’ and with 2 drunk nights, last week has caught up with me. That and the fact I must be getting old… Actually though, I am feeling generally sparkier,… Continue Reading
Sunnier Days launches 1st Online Disability Seminar with JTSMA
Hi readers. Another week has passed already. I am keen to tell you about a new project I am working on for Sunnier Days (my social enterprise). Therefore I will share Thursday nights debauchery and this weekends fun in a separate blog over the next couple of days on my site. Sunnier Days is the… Continue Reading
Direct Payment care and Guidance
I am sat writing this blog in my old skool wheelchair that has dead batteries and not offering me the best of comfort! I have taken a days annual leave, knowing the weekend was going to be tiring in a debauched kind of way. More to come. So in knowing I would sleep most of… Continue Reading
What a week!
Wow! What a week. Firstly, since my BBC breakfast appearance and more importantly the blog on the DLA consultation. General feedback from the ‘one month before heartbreak’ blogswarm has been positive. It received coverage on the following links, as only a starter and taster: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/18/disabled-protesters-one-month-before-heartbreak http://www.goodaccessguide.co.uk/news/info.php?refnum=544 http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/latest-news/1285-protests-against-benefits-cuts http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/service-user-voice/2011/01/disabled-people-and-service-users-will-be-heard-we-will-be-listened-to-ombh.html#more http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/01/17/does-the-broken-of-britain-campaign-need-celebrity-support/ Thanks to Emma (TweetHandle: @funkyfairy22) for… Continue Reading