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This week I’m doing an in-person talk for the Portsmouth Association of Wrens on Tuesday evening. It will be good to be amongst so many with shared experience of life in uniform. Also, whether you have a sight problem or…
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DWP’s crystal ball.
Some people may be sceptical due to the Department’s distinctly patchy record of getting things right, but they are apparently going to be able to decide when people with long-term health conditions limiting their day-to-day activities aren’t really too disabled. …
Choux experiment.
It took four of us: Karen the high priestess of the kitchen, Kathy the super-gardener, Will who’s another blind veteran and muggins here, to make choux buns for lunch. It was all highly experimental with one pre-made batch of raw…
Just three things …
Firstly, here’s the link to my Radio Victory interview last week: Look for Sunday’s ‘Between the Lines’ (15th March ’26) I start at about minute 16. Might be useful for anyone who is facing a life-changing health condition. …
Loose end Sunday 15 March at 1800
If you’ve nothing better to do Sunday 6pm (for landlubbers!) you could listen to my latest interview on Radio Victory. To listen online click on the link below: DAB+ and Online : Radio like it used to be! : Radio…
Tackle longer but lonelier, less healthy and less happy lives.
Here are some extracts from a recent Office for National statistics report. Not very positive but perhaps a timely reminder to take back control of our lives: watch the diet, do a bit more exercise, make more contacts with friends,…
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Who said that being back in the workplace was best?
During the Covid pandemic, lots of jobs moved to remote home-working but now employers want more people back where they can see them. For disabled people, such moves can create serious limitations: the struggle to travel; negative impact on health;…
Tell the Public Accounts Committee soonest about your experience of Access To Work.
Deadline: 26 February. Tell them if you have experienced long delays, growing backlogs and other impact on Disabled people and employers. I’m writing too about their maladministration and injustice. If this vital help for people like me and so many others doesn’t function…
Healthy life-expectancy starting to nose-dive?
The latest Office for national Statistics data (Healthy life expectancy, UK – Office for National Statistics) makes grim reading for everyone and worse for women. Our expectations of living well seem to be going south. “In 2022 to 2024: Males…