Where to start! The past weeks have been mind blowing. I have clocked up a bit of travel, mainly visiting Spain for my EVS planning visit, and had so many things to get in order before March. If you haven’t caught up on my 2 months ahead in Spain you can read about it here… Continue Reading
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The need for rest and reflection
Happy new year everyone! I cannot believe how fast January is moving. My little sister is also 23 today – Happy Birthday Claire Bear 🙂 Following on from my last post about the drastic changes I made in 2011 and my general hopes for 2012; it is fair to say I hit a brick wall…. Continue Reading
A day in the life of…
During some recent discussions, I realised that the positive impact of my being disabled, living life to the full and not dwelling on the ‘cannots’ can also be misconstrued. In my next post I am going to explore disability as a social problem, lay out my proposed solutions and show how we all play different… Continue Reading
3 wheelies and 1 New York
When Srin, Toby and I set off to the big apple with Lena, Kurtly and Bjorn as carers, who knew what fun would ensue! Here is the outcome via the medium of flipcammed video footage.
Launching ‘meet-ups’ and I’m off to NYC
As referenced in a recent blog post, I have not been so prolific with my article writing of late. In all honesty my efforts have been on grasping self employment, reflecting on our progress in changing the world for disabled people and planning the coming months. Enough of the excuses though because I am now… Continue Reading
I’m still here
I have recently had some friendly contact from you guys asking why I haven’t written any overarching or political articles of late. I cannot express how busy I have been with the daily grind of self employment: keeping on top of emails, rolling out #disabilitywebinars with Hackney Council and Scope (now both live for their… Continue Reading
Public speaking, relaunched mag and a new book
I have almost finished my e-book! It is going through proofing and then I can get it out to you. If you don’t remember it is on a theory I have conceived about being disabled, having life goals and then the resources to reach them. It is called the Diamond Theory… Also Srin, our volunteer… Continue Reading
A bumpy road to a big vision
Hey guys, another great Monday morning for me! Hope you all had a good weekend and are feeling ok on this sunny Monday. This is a rather different catch up blog. I can tell you last week really took it out of me, but the first disability webinar was a definite success. I had a… Continue Reading