My nephew, Toby, is a key member of the Baking Blind team: he is the videographer who has captured all the thrills and spills of my cooking adventure over the last year. He was intrepid in accompanying me throughout the…
Please see below a dramatic update from Penny on her Baking Blind World Tour: Twist of fate interrupts world tour. It was nearly an untimely end for me and Baking Blind: in France just before Christmas scoping out more cooking…
It was nearly an untimely end for me and Baking Blind: in France just before Christmas scoping out more cooking opportunities, I was involved in a serious car accident . I had to be cut out of the car…
What do you think: How has 600 years shaped Perugia? What’s it like to smell history? Blind people getting their tax allowances? How has 600 years shaped Perugia? Throughout the weekend of 11/12 June this year, Perugia was alive with…
What do you think: Tried cooking in Umbria? Social networking easier “hands-free”? Lost touch with old pension contributions? Tried cooking in Umbria? A traditional old farm with its own vineyards and olive groves is the perfect place to learn about…
What do you think: How to pick up men in Rome? Accessibility more than just lifts and ramps? Physical impairments limit work in the fitness industry? How to pick up men in Rome? Completely impossible to book passenger assistance…
What do you think? Time to show that having an impairment doesn’t stop you being utterably adorable and wildly sexy? Are “dating” programmes already toe-curlingly awful without throwing disability in to the mix? Isn’t everyone entitled to their 15 minutes…
What do you think? Is it easy to find the back-to-work help you need? Is one organisation going to have all the answers? Is local partnership working the answer to halving the number of disabled people out of work? When…
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability is asking for views about how the Government can fulfil its pledge to halve the number of unemployed disabled people. Responses can be made to APPGinquiry@disabilityrightsuk.org – deadline is 4 July. I have set out…
What do you think: When you complain about inaccessible information, does an equally inaccessible reply count? Should staff handling customer complaints be up-to-date about the law? If a bank ignores one bit of law, what other laws are they breaking?…
