Just in case you’d like to listen to some life stories while lazing in the sun with something long and cool, here are two links to recent interviews I did with RNIB Connect radio: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ6rXY6x0a0&t=9s Listen from: 1minute…
It may be only today but I’ve got a great new and incredibly simple lemon cordial to share:. 1 lemon. 60g honey (or granulated sugar). 1 mug of boiling water. Using a potato peeler, peel skin off lemon and…
From HMRC: Dear customer, Join us for a collaboration between the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) and HMRC’s National Minimum Wage (NMW) team where you can learn about holiday entitlement and working time for minimum wage purposes, as…
Yes, you too can comment on changes to the Personal Independence Payments benefit for us with disabilities and health conditions. Don’t forget that we make up about 1-in-5 and, when you add family, friends, carers and more, the proposed changes…
Whatever your politics, tomorrow is the chance to have your say. I’m one of the lucky ones: the postal vote went off last week but some others have been scrambling for theirs. The alternative is to pitch up in person…
Please support us blind and other military veterans. Click on the link to download our response to the Green Paper: PIP Green Paper Response. Email consultation.modernisingsupport@DWP.GOV.UK by 23 July 2024 with your own comments.
My thanks to everyone who contributed ideas and examples to a combined response. Three main points are coming across very strongly: 1. PIP should be about helping us regain as much Personal Independence as possible so we can fulfil our…
Last year I fell down the stairs and fractured a vertebra. Three weeks in hospital and more weeks in a special bed at home, it is proving a very long haul to recover. I’m trying to do all the right…
Water spray is a great alternative to smoke for controlling honeybees. Yesterday, we were extracting over 20 kg of honey from the wax honeycomb frames from three of the sous-chef’s hives. Sticky work: removing the cappings from the honeycomb; spinning…
I confess that I was incandescent yesterday hearing that proposed tax reductions would be funded by removing benefits from many disabled people. But I took a bit of time to mull it over and realise it was just appalling presentation.…
