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Sitting in Steve's study this morning, sharing the first cuppa of the day, catching up on the overnight Twitter feed but discussing noth...

As usual, here are my five favourite posts from BADD 2010 so far. Bear in mind that once again the total contributions are well into three ...

Written for Blogging Against Disablism Day 2010 . Regular readers will know that my life at present divides into two main areas: Planning my...

Once again, the esteemed Diary Of A Goldfish is hosting the blogosphere's annual Blogging Against Disablism event. As usual, this is no...

In my last post, I talked about the Twitter event Such Tweet Sorrow , a production of Romeo and Juliet being played out in real time over f...

And now for something completely different. There is a bit of an art project happening on Twitter for the next few weeks. Under the title Su...

On Friday I had my test drive of the e-motion power-assisted wheels suggested by my Access to Work assessment . The Invacare rep got the cha...

I had my panel interview with the Prince's Trust the other day, and the good news is they thought I was great, so I'm getting all so...

Yesterday I had my Access to Work wheelchair assessment. Wheelchairs are tricky things with strange criteria. If you tick all the NHS boxes,...

I rather suspect that, no matter what happens in my life, I'm not going to trump my last post for a while yet. Even the business start-...

Potted Summary for people in a rush who can't be bothered with all these words: This weekend, Evilstevie proposed to me. It was very ro...

Scrolling through an otherwise innocuous twitter feed this afternoon, when up popped a tweet from Disability Now about the latest antics of ...

Regular readers will be aware that I've been waiting for the results of my DLA renewal. To recap, that's the disability benefit that...

Life has been (mostly) nicely full since my last post. The biggest nice thing was that Steve and I went on a little weekend jaunt to the top...

This morning I had my medical examination for my DLA renewal. A big thank you to everyone who left such supportive and encouraging comments...

Ok, I am admitting right now to all of you that I am procrastinating on the self-employment front. I will do it and I am making progress. ...

So, Disability Living Allowance , also known as DLA and a great source of both help and stress. To recap, this is the money given to disable...

As some of you may have noticed, it's been rather chilly in the UK lately. At the risk of stating the obvious, this has an impact on peo...

So, there's this service I sometimes use called e-resistible . They enable online ordering for takeaways who would not otherwise offer a...

January As usual, the year began with my birthday, which this year was accompanied by a visit from my mother. I also managed to get everythi...