This week let a new challenge begin. I will start what will undoubtedly be a long process in learning how to drive a car! This very first step will involve attending an assessment centre in Harlow, Essex to determine the car adaptions I require in order to drive. Seeing Martyn’s car and by virtue of… Continue Reading
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Guest blog by Toby Mildon: Blighted by near death experience – but feel so much better for it!
My good friend Toby Mildon had a bad time of it in 2010. Read the traumas he went through and also the positivity he has taken from it. A very insightful read where he also shares some of his coaching knowledge too.
Some useful info
I tried to upload this last night but wouldnt post for some reason. so take 2! – I am keen not to let my site become an ad page but when someone I like approaches me or a cause resonates with me I happy to pass on. so having had some requests here are a… Continue Reading
Message from Natasha Wood
I promised Tash I would post this. Lend your support by going or passing on please Following my sell out last year, I’ve been invited back to The Nottingham Playhouse to perform my stage play Rolling with Laughter It is a piece of theatre, not stand up (or in my case sit down), its a play… Continue Reading
An historical day to note
My good friend Graham W passed on the following info. interesting stuff – Community Care magazine released a survey carried out, mostly with social workers, looking at attitudes towards personalisation. Sadly not done from service users perspective: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2010/05/19/114517/the-impact-of-personalisation-on-adults-social-workers.htm Also it is 40 years since Alf Morris MP got the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act… Continue Reading
Almost polling day
A quick important message about polling day and disability is below – At the last General Election, Scope found that 68% of polling stations had one or more access barriers to disabled people. With one day till polling day Scope is asking if you can help them get a clearer picture of the barriers disabled people… Continue Reading
Polls apart update
An update on Scope’s worthy election campaign on access to voting – We’d love to hear about your voting experiences, from previous elections or election day this year. You can share these in a few ways: · on Twitter – hash tag your updates #PollsApart · by sharing pictures of the outside of your polling… 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