I’m talking about ticks (the sort that burrow under your skin and carry Lymes Disease). One managed to grab into the sous chef. Blind person useless at picking out the carcase remains so he resorted to excellent neighbour but tiny…
Grab a cup of coffee and catch this short interview on Thursday 15 May at about 1015. The link is: If you too live in the Portsmouth area, it is also available on DAB radio. I was talking…
Dear customer, If you have employees wi…
Doug Glading presenting the Victory in Europe commemorative book to Penny Melville-Brown at the historic Catisfield memorial hall. Neighbours living in Catisfield, on the outskirts of Fareham, are doubly remembering their local predecessors who gave their…
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…
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…
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…
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 –…
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. …
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…
