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I recovered pretty well from my first riding lesson. On day 1 I had sore muscles, but nothing too upsetting. On day 2, my muscles had settle...

A few weeks ago, I decided to embark on a bit of an adventure. For ages I'd been trying to think of something new to do that would enabl...

Sometimes I find it quite difficult to use social media, as a disabled person. Not so much on a technical level, as on a privacy level. How ...

I know this is ground we've covered before , but a look at today's front pages makes it necessary to go over it again. In the UK, we...

This weekend Steve and I did something completely not-wedding-related. We went to RAF Cosford , a RAF museum in Shropshire. Getting there wa...

Apart from the date and the dress, the other big thing I didn't want to broadcast online until after the wedding was the venue. In Eng...

There are certain patterns with ME/CFS, and one of the major ones has to do with the relationship between activity and fatigue. I follow the...

This is me and Evilstevie enjoying our first hours of married life: After the ceremony described in my previous post, we bundled into a car ...

Evilstevie and I were married at noon on Saturday, 21 May, 2011. The day was everything we wanted it to be. Our friends and families all mad...

The wedding looms ever closer. The craft-project chaos of my lounge is gradually turning into stacks of boxes with neat little contents-list...

Should have seen this one coming, really. For several years now I've been considered by Social Services to need help in the mornings, to...

Gazing down the final straight towards w-day. I was a bit panicky over the bank holidays - not about the getting married bit, just about th...

Today is Blogging Against Disablism Day 2011 , hosted once again at Diary Of A Goldfish - and many thanks to her for this. Last year I was i...

A lot of hoo-ha in the UK press at the moment about disability benefits . The essence of the story is that the government reckon 80,000 clai...

Anyone who's ever so much as hovered on the fringes of wedding planning will have seen one of these articles. Shocking rise in the cost ...

Following on from my last post, I carried on in the bit-under-the-weather vein for a few days and met with repeated frustration on the ballo...

I was hoping to be able to bounce in here with a post saying that, after all the things which went wrong on Wednesday , everything was back ...

As you can probably tell from the sparse posting, I'm not doing amazingly well at the moment. Despite that, today was a gloriously sunny...

About a week ago, the 2011 UK Census dropped through our door along with more or less every other door in the country. The instructions on ...

IF you have a painful injury or condition which manifests itself by way of inflammation ... ... and IF you see a doctor and the doctor refer...