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 was a great success thanks to the contributions of friends. Joan and Jeff brought inspiring…
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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 connections) have huge problems contacting our GPs when they increasingly rely on “digital”. The Equality…
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 in darkest Shropshire. The sous-chef spent a day working on the microscope: pollen and dissected…
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 work. Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper –…
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 had brought her guide dog which was absolutely silent even when I bumped into him. …
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 population. There were masses keen to work and we had a 40% success rate. Harvest…
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 (scroll to 1 hr32mins for 20 minutes of ideas). Now we need the Chancellor plus…
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 University of London). The 20 minute talk is recorded at: (scroll through to 1…
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 Russians towards each other (both as suspicious as each other and equally ill-informed). Lovely relaxed…
International Women’s Day: Hear me speak
What holds women back worldwide? Hot topics: Balancing work and family, working in research and agriculture, the risks of disability, gender equality and empowerment. Take some time for yourself, put your feet up and join our international conference at 1030…