The Crown Jewels Of The New Forest
Last weekend we visited one of my favourite gardens – Exbury Gardens, in the New Forest. As we wandered around the gardens, we saw lovely collections of trees gradually changing to their autumn splendour; such the gorgeous acer, and the beautiful nyssa, which leaf colour can include red, yellow and orange. We also admired many plants still in flower such as hydrangeas, dahlias, lovely grasses and so on.
Is disability the best kept secret in SW UGANDA?
I got a phone call from Ann last Friday morning wondering if I was free that evening. Yes I am, what’s up I asked? The school inspector from Patience and Perfect’s village is at Roehampton University for a few days and he wondered if we would see him. So it was that we found ourselves [...]
Public Services we take for granted
This blog was inspired both by a blog written by a fellow disability activist, Crimson Crip (http://crimsoncrip.wordpress.com/2010/05/23/i-demand-the-right-to-a-fked-up-lif/) and by recent personal experiences. It’s a bit of a national pastime to complain about public services, but there are some that we just simply take for granted, aren’t there? For an issue completely unrelated to my disability, [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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