Since my quick concoction of a video blog yesterday it has been a whirlwind 2 days and border line strange at 16.00 yesterday afternoon (I will explain the kayaking photo shoot later). I just made the IOF PR briefing for 8.30am. I had foreseen my first day in self employment along the lines of wake… Continue Reading
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Independence Day
Welcome to a new chapter of my life! It is hardly a shocker to hear as I have been banging on about this for a few weeks. However, today is officially Independence Day! The 4th of July 2011 is the day I begin working full time on changing the world for disabled people and their… Continue Reading
Summer Series – Swimming
During my time as Hackney council’s Personalisation ambassador I delivered talks about my social care package. It was to show disabled people, professionals and local councillors in the borough the merits and difficulties of Direct Payments and Personal Budgets. I laid out the assessment process, defining your needs, creating outcomes, using the money and other… Continue Reading
Summer Series – Guide to festivals
In the latest instalment of my summer series, I am discussing how to attend summer festivals when considering additional needs, such as my own. During another difficult winter I decided I may not go one better than flying a plane this summer (although leaving my day job to start a business feels like a sky… Continue Reading
PAY US LESS? GET OUT OF TOWN
Richard is one my best mates. We attended Coventry university together. Had many hilarious and intellectual conversations throughout. Rich is a political genius and I wanted him to write this piece around the recent media coverage of disabled people. I hope you find it interesting, helpful and wanting to question the status quo. Thanks for… Continue Reading
Serendipity
Definition: The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way My interpretation: If you want something – do it. Despite the risks amazing things will occur I have just spent an amazing weekend with my good friends from ‘Misfit Inc’ (http://thelacproject.com/) – AJ and Melissa Leon. Almost 2 years ago… Continue Reading
Summer Series – Relationships
Hello blog readers! You may remember I launched a new series of blogs called the ‘summer series’. The idea being to pull together my wealth of knowledge and experience of kicking ass in life, while doing so on 4 wheels. The plans are for broader blogs around education, employment, travel (locally and worldwide), learning to… Continue Reading
A bold and brave new beginning
I have to admit I sometimes stun myself by what I do in a week, but this update takes the biscuit! As the previous 2 posts show in video format, I attended the disability rights ‘Hardest Hit’ march last Wednesday, along with over 5000 other people. I am not going to write too much on… Continue Reading