I'm taking a trip down to St Ives for a few days next week, and one of the things I really want to do is visit the Tate gallery. As with a lot of organisations, they have a web page dedicated to 'accessibility', which mainly focuses on access for people who use wheelchairs and/or who have sensory impairments. As usual, at the bottom of the page, ( Read more... )

... but today I caught him in the act ( Read more... )

... or it'll bother me all weekend.

The pool where I swim has two lanes marked off in the mornings - designated the 'fast' lane and the 'slow' lane. People self-select which lane they're going to use. I swim in the slow lane, along with the other people swimming a moderate breast stroke, a few older men doing a slow crawl, and faster swimmers doing ( Read more... )

I’ve been turned down for a blue badge. Again. It’s not a huge surprise, and I only applied to underline the point (for my supervisor at work, who is particularly thick about disability matters) that I would be turned down.

You see, I am disabled, but I’m not disabled enough. I’ve had forty years of practice at working around my disabilities, and ( Read more... )

This article popped up on my Yahoo homepage today, and some of the comments made me see red.

Paralympian's wheelchair taken away - Australian budget airline Jetstar apologised after making a Paralympic champion check in his wheelchair before catching a flight, prompting him to drag himself through the airport.Basically the airline wanted him to ( Read more... )

I should have known.

After what Russell T Davies did to Torchwood earlier this year, I should have known he'd try to do the same thing to Doctor Who.

And on top of everything, the episode was shite. The plot was thinner than cheap bog-roll, and the characters just as one-dimensional. No, I take that back. They weren't even one-dimensional - they ( Read more... )

So my body doesn't work like other people's. So the way I do some things might look strange and awkward. That does NOT mean I want some fucking idiot random person to grab my foot and 'help' me lift my leg. Especially when I'd already said I didn't want any help. Grrrr.

35%

That's the proportion of registered voters who could actually be bothered to turn out and vote on Thursady. Which means that 65% felt they had something more important to do than spend half an hour of their day deciding who would run their local council and who would represent them in Europe. On the 20th anniversary of the day people died in ( Read more... )

I work three floors up in a building which has double-height ceilings, so I’ve been collecting lift-rants for a while now.

( Rant the First )

Okay, I’m a little more coherent, but still absolutely furious about the news article I heard this morning about the parents who’ve complained that children’s TV presenter Cerrie Burnell might scare their kids because she’s missing part of her right arm.

I can’t even begin to express how angry this makes me. In my opinion, if your child is scared of ( Read more... )