Tag: Disability

I can’t use a computer without assistive technology. Over the years as computers have become more powerful assistive technology has become better and better. There are now hundreds of …

On The Thursday before Christmas I thought I would go and try out the ice rink in Lincoln. They have one every year and this year it is there …

We are now in the middle of Disability History Month which runs every year from 22 November to 22nd of December. So to mark the month I thought I …

I get nervous and anxious whenever I find myself in social situations with lots of people I don’t know. I think this is mild social anxiety. It makes me …

At the beginning of September I went to Blackpool for the weekend, from Friday to Monday. It was an illuminating experience! In this post I will write a review …

I spent the last week on the planet Thanet.

This  article from Disability Now  hits the nail on the head. Legislation such as  the equality act is not enforced, so Restaurants or music venues will not make themselves …

Ticket providers and music venues are discriminating against disabled people by not letting us buy tickets online for music events like everyone else can.

So, the other day I tried out the latest Virtual Reality technology at the new VR entertainment centre in Lincoln, opened by Tension Exit Games – the very first …

Summer is here, and that means music festivals!

On 23 June the UK will vote in a referendum to decide whether to remain in the European Union. There has been an interesting and sometimes heated debate going …

This is Stephen Hawking’s timeless advice to disabled people about how they should live their life. Every disabled person should read his wise words.

The Algarve in southern Portugal is a mecca for tourists who flock to its beautiful sunkissed beaches. With lush green rolling hills, buckets of sunshine, stunning scenery and pretty …

The other day (27th of April) I went to Naidex at the NEC in Birmingham. For those that don’t know Naidex is the U.K.’s largest disability, rehabilitation and home …

The most recent UK Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (2009) found that 3 million people in the UK suffer from some form of anxiety – and I am one of them.

The UK government have recently continued their policy of kicking the most vulnerable people in society by cutting the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) by £30 a week, from …

People are sometimes surprised that I am a cheerful person. They expect me to be constantly miserable just because I am disabled. They believe that if they were in my …

Today I was injected with the most potent poison known to man. One gram of it (about the mass of a raisin) is enough to kill over 5.5 million …

This is a great post about YouTubers who use subtitles on their videos by Ellen Parfitt: Source: My favorite YouTubers (who caption!) I find it really frustrating when there is …

This is a response to the Daily Prompt “Life After Blogs: Your life without a computer: what does it look like?”  If computers all over the world suddenly stopped working …