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