Finished all your eggs yet?
Have to confess that the main one is a goner but still quite a few left on the Easter Simnel cake. The Bank Holiday lunch
28/04/2025
Blog & Articles of Interest
Doctors making it easier to get in touch?
At last, someone else has realised that lots of us (with disabilities, who are older, from ethnic minorities, with limited English or just awful internet
09/04/2025
Easter bonnet or crash helmet?
Neither! And you should be ashamed of not recognising a skep-in-the-making. This weekend gone was the National Bee convention held at Harper Adams University
07/04/2025
Tell DWP what you think of the Pathways to Work Green Paper
I want to encourage as many people as possible to have a look at the Government’s recent Green Paper on supporting more disabled people to
02/04/2025
Life without sight.
Two blind friends for lunch on Monday (guests rather than being the fare) plus another joining us from Ramsgate on-line for dessert. Fortunately, only one
26/03/2025
3 thoughts on changes to disability benefits.
Loads of disabled people want to work. I spent years working in an area with the 4th highest level of disabled people in the local
19/03/2025
Big news: politician recognises poverty as breeding ground for disability and ill-health.
Congratulations to Health Secretary Wes Streeting for deploying extra health teams to some of our most deprived areas. Perhaps he heard my talk last week
17/03/2025
Sustainability, Disability and International Women
Last Saturday was International Women’s Day and I was speaking at a worldwide online conference organised by the World Association for Sustainable Development (Queen Mary
12/03/2025
A good book for the moment.
John Steinbeck’s “A Russian Journal” is definitely worth the time. He captures Ukraine soon after WWII, the destruction of Stalingrad, the attitudes of Americans and
12/03/2025