disability
I need a holiday
As a good friend once said, you cannot run your body like a gas station, or something of that vibe. Basically life needs to be full of balance. Good sleep, food and exercise alongside fun, spontaneous/planned debauchery and lifes little treats. Occasionally I am guilty of working too much, lacking sleep and eating less healthily…. Continue Reading
I’m now a band manager!
It’s Tuesday night, yet I am sure it is later in the week! I think with my usual routine, the preparation for launching ‘seminar in your slippers’ and with 2 drunk nights, last week has caught up with me. That and the fact I must be getting old… Actually though, I am feeling generally sparkier,… Continue Reading
Sunnier Days launches 1st Online Disability Seminar with JTSMA
Hi readers. Another week has passed already. I am keen to tell you about a new project I am working on for Sunnier Days (my social enterprise). Therefore I will share Thursday nights debauchery and this weekends fun in a separate blog over the next couple of days on my site. Sunnier Days is the… Continue Reading
Direct Payment care and Guidance
I am sat writing this blog in my old skool wheelchair that has dead batteries and not offering me the best of comfort! I have taken a days annual leave, knowing the weekend was going to be tiring in a debauched kind of way. More to come. So in knowing I would sleep most of… Continue Reading
What a week!
Wow! What a week. Firstly, since my BBC breakfast appearance and more importantly the blog on the DLA consultation. General feedback from the ‘one month before heartbreak’ blogswarm has been positive. It received coverage on the following links, as only a starter and taster: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/18/disabled-protesters-one-month-before-heartbreak http://www.goodaccessguide.co.uk/news/info.php?refnum=544 http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/latest-news/1285-protests-against-benefits-cuts http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/service-user-voice/2011/01/disabled-people-and-service-users-will-be-heard-we-will-be-listened-to-ombh.html#more http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/01/17/does-the-broken-of-britain-campaign-need-celebrity-support/ Thanks to Emma (TweetHandle: @funkyfairy22) for… Continue Reading
One month before heartbreak
Dear all elected officials and decision makers (at a national and local level) In light of the recent cuts to government spending, we (Martyn Sibley of London and Richard Currie of Manchester) are writing to convey our deep concern at the affects they will have on the disabled people of the UK. We are only… Continue Reading
Background info to BBC interview
This morning, thanks to the lovely Amisha who works tirelessly with the great Scope press team, I was on BBC breakfast. As you know my day job is fundraising, but to be given the chance to speak up on disability issues to 5 million viewers and mention Scope while there was awesome. I jumped at… Continue Reading