Hello all! sorry I have been a bit quieter than usual and not blogged over the weekend. Honestly this was on purpose as I knew the article http://www.disabilitynow.org.uk/entertainment/webwatch/linking-to-a-brighter-future/ was going to be published and I felt the blog I did called ‘my life’ was fitting for potential new people to the site. An introduction of… Continue Reading
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My life
I have written this article for a newsletter in Hounslow disability, but thought it would be nice to share here too – My journey to where I am now in 2010 started in 1983. Funnily enough I don’t remember that September day so well. Fast forward 18 months and I was then diagnosed with a… Continue Reading
Sunnier Days
As spring is around the corner, the days are both brighter and warmer as well as waking up feeling so much more achievable – sunnier days are coming. This is also the name of my new facebook group and first event I am setting up. The idea as some will know is around providing new… Continue Reading
One Giant Leap
Some may have read the article I had written in “wiser words” about a snapshot of disability. Essentially I outlined what the social model of disability meant to me and looked at some pointers for moving forward. My view is that society needed, needs and is changing for the better, but responsibility is in the… Continue Reading
My new job – Onwards and upwards :-)
So as my Tweets and Facebook updates mentioned I have had a little mystery going on the past week. I actually applied for a new job last November but there was a recruitment freeze before interviews. Think things happen for a reason because I was so unwell after this period who knows what may have… Continue Reading
Guest blog on Assisted Suicide by Peter Street
Peter has kindly agreed to write a blog on the recent news around the laws and views on assisted suicide – I am in pain twenty four hours a day since 1982 – with both my thirty two fractures from osteoporosis and the pain caused if and when i go into status epilepticus; thankfully the… Continue Reading
Martyn’s BIG WEEK
Hello and welcome to my big week! I’ve been tweeting like crazy but just havent had the chance to write a blog. I found out on Monday an article I have written is being published on e campaigning in Disability Now. Out 24th March and I had a pic taken especially for it too. Wednesday… Continue Reading
Groundhog Thursday
Thursdays always seem similar with a curry, feeling shattered and struggling into my weekend lie in. Im more tired than usual as the car broke Tuesday night. i left it overnight, still wouldnt start wednesday and so garage came to me at work this time and fixed this morning. in the meantime i was relying… Continue Reading