As always my life has been fast paced and on the tiring side. I am glad to say despite winter and general work tiredness, I am feeling good and looking forward to xmas. Due to things being busy, this blog on the recent Independent Living Fund (ILF) proposals is not the heavily researched or laid… Continue Reading
Bigger Picture
Comprehensive Spending Review
So the long awaited and highly debated spending review finally took place. I was asked by Scope if I would mind watching the coverage, write some tweets and have them fed into their website. Was a pleasure to take part in such an event and interact with others on the issues. The first wave of… Continue Reading
The meaning of life :-p
For a rare occasion I am not going to waffle or give lots of detail of my recent activities. Mainly because I learnt after a blog many moons ago that as open as I am, some people like their news kept private. Quite right too. So in the realms of some privacy for the individual… Continue Reading
Disabled people – this blog needs you
Actually this blog needs you, disabled or not 🙂 Now to the point. I am always asking people whether they prefer the day to day blogs I write or some of the more political ones. The feedback is – both. For some, just seeing a guy in a chair (with all the add ons I… Continue Reading
Disability as a community
Since my quickfire video on last weeks travels I had a great meeting at Spurs, my new PA Gabi started Thursday and I finished the working week. Friday night I was energised enough to manage a few drinks and a later night. Always nice to finish the working week with friends and good times. Had… Continue Reading
Birthday blog
I thought I had better write a blog tonight before the birthday celebrations kick off this weekend. 27 tomorrow and I have felt both 17 and 37 through parts of the past year, guess it averages out hey. Its been a mega year: I was pretty unwell for the first prolonged time of my working… Continue Reading
When inaccessibility is a good thing
As has been mentioned already Chris is leaving employment with me after this shift. Meanwhile my ex girlfriend from Austria came on Thursday. Its a shame I am ill because I would prefer to be full of beans for the 4 austrian girls staying either side of reading festival today and to give a send… Continue Reading
What is it all about?!
This is an article I have written for an international medical journal. It also acts as a reminder of why I keep this website flowing. Furthermore being quite sensitive I do like a reminisce! Hope you like it. Having read the article written by Patrick Moeschen I was inspired to contribute to the social model… Continue Reading