Blog on being a disabled person, different cultures, diversity, equality, disability, travel, being diaspora Chinese and disabled travel.
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I have always been told that Liverpudlians are friendly people. I went there for a conference this weekend. But nobody told me how inaccessible or dirty it is. I think the city is in renovation to get ready for being the European city next year. If they...
Lire la suiteMy friend,Michelle, told me about this on the phone last night - that a guy in a wheelchair got pulled over for being on a motorway. When asked as to why he was on the busy road, he said he got lost looking for a brothel. Excerpt from yahoo news: The...
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Today I went to Lunt Roman Fort to have a look around. Actually I made a mistake. I thought the VENI VIDI VICI Bank holiday event was on today. so I went on the bus - the 539 bus to Baginton village. It was an accessible bus and the driver let me off...
Lire la suiteMy friend , Matt, in Nantes is in great fear over the next presidential elections in France. He fears that Sarkozy will win. My son, John, on the other hand, thinks that it would be good for France to get a shot in the arm if Sarkozy gets be president....
Lire la suiteI volunteered to do some research on disability and disadvantaged minorities - BMES, the older generation etc.What is the divide between the black disabled and those of the majority disabled? Here are some websites- REPORT HIGHLIGHTS LONDON'S HEALTH DIVIDE...
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April proved to be a difficult month. I had a cold and then a temperature which would not go away and made all my joints ache. I spent most of Easter in bed. I watched more tv than I have ever done. Some salesmen from SKY came to sell me more tv channels....
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Its been a month since I last wrote. When you leave things, it gets harder to get back into the routine. Its been a busy month. First of all, my project has finished so now I am officially unemployed. I've never signed on before so this was an experience....
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When I was back in Strasbourg, I met up with Amy who had not been well but it was good to see her. She has another 2 cds out of her piano pieces. I listened to her music tonight and it was so good - even when I have never had any classical training or...
Lire la suiteSome people have mistaken ideas about independent living - they think it means being on your own, not being dependent or asking for help. My soon to be ex complained bitterly at one point - asking me that he thought I had wanted to be independent, so...
Lire la suiteI should really try to write more often but some evenings I have been too tired, and then my pc gave me the dratted blue screen (crashed) but I do want to jot down a few lines about events in the past couple of weeks. I have been to Strasbourg to see...
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