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There was snow on the ground still so I was glad that the GIHP van is coming to pick me to go to my appointment with the specialist. I may be going to day hospital twice a week when they have a spot free. I will be having occupational and physical therapists...
I have not written much lately. I had been having flu with headache and backache. I did not spend as much time at the computer but stayed in bed. I finished two books. This morning I missed the chronopost man while I was in the bathroom -they never stay...
The garage door is broken again. The door into the block is again accessible without the fob. Security in this place is crap. There I've said it. Beauchamp House apartments are billed as executive flats . ".Beauchamp House has been sensitively planned...
We were invited to the Gordons for Christmas lunch. It was good to catch up with news and see Jayne, Catherine M and the Wimberleys too. Catherine had a surprise planned for Eric who had been extremely helpful with her for her cats and moving flats. He...
Yesterday I went to the cinema for P.S I love you supposedly with Denise except she had an emergency so I went on my own. The film was okay - Hilary Swanks was a treat as was Cathy Bates. The men were good eye candy. However I had to watch the movie at...
I spent the last few days doing some applications for a job and a conference scholarship. Much of a long shot really. New Year's eve was the deadline for both. However I had to get ready for the New Year's eve festivities with Marie Laure and other friends....
I had a look at Coventry City Council for their Disability Equality scheme (DES) The Disability Equality Scheme has been produced as a result of on-going dialogue with a wide range of disabled people across the city. This has included meetings of the...
Continuation of Promoting Independence and the OT saga.... Out of interest and curiousity, I looked up Coventry City Council and the eligibility criteria for social care in the website, Coventry has Eligibility criteria classify people's needs into four...
I went to Coventry for a job interview. Flying with Ryanair turned out to be quite smooth although not that cheap because I booked quite late. Phil was there, bless his heart, to meet me and take me across to the YHA Hostel. That is quite central - oposite...
I've decided that I will keep writing major blogs on Sundays but will add notes on other days.I found this item reported on Yanous -and from the BBC - A bike for the paralysed. People paralysed by spinal cord injuries could soon be able to go out cycling....
I didn't have the courage to go to church today - Strasbourg seemed to be covered with a thin blanket of snow. Nothing like the snow in Massachusetts but quite impressive all the same. The trees looked liked they have had a sprinkling of icing sugar....
Its been too long since i last wrote and I am writing now from the public library. Briefly, I have been to barcelona with my sister and Florence for the EVA conference. I have moved and was stayed in bed recovering from a viral infection over Easter....
There are not many things that make me angry - but injustice can really set me off. At the moment, Coventry social services put me on this 'promoting independence' package , they gave me to understand that if I did not, then I cannot ask for a care package,...
On Sunday, Naomi and I went to London to see " A major exhibition of Chinese contemporary art, architecture and sound" China Power Station: Part I by the Serpentine Gallery at the Battersea Power Station. Since Yin worked there, she got us free entry....
Yau Shun-Chiu works for the CNRS on linguistics of Chinese sign language. He spoke to us on the blind and deaf people in China. He gave some historical background, his experience is mostly based on Quangzhou he has contact with a school there where he...
I did not expect a thunderstorm when I set out this morning but it was a bit scary to be under the underpass on the way back from the Techno Centre and seeing water rising rapidly from the drain when I was sheltering there with a fellow colleague. We...
They said I should get my eye checked anyway. So I send for the SOS medical service. The doctor came and said I was lucky that my cornea was not touched. He prescribed me some eye drops - antibiotics. Marie Laure was kind enough to go to the chemist to...
Yesterday I went to Equality 2025 Annual Public Meeting at the ICC. There were more people than last year - just about over a hundred. I don't think there was enough time allocated to 4 hot topics - some of them, like Individual Budgets were too complex...
I lost my camera full of my photos at the Freedom Drive and London's Liberty Festival on my journey home from Strasbourg. This really disheartened me. I guess I was too distracted on the last day with all my stuff and since it was the last day, my energy...
Tomorrow I am going to meet up with Michelle and Nick in Stratford for lunch and after that Nick and i will get ready for Strasbourg Freedom Drive. i am excited because this year I am going with other people - Miro will also join us there. So much has...
I thought if I write a bit each day I wont have a mad rush for sundays.Today I went to the social worker to ask him about social services. I had a COTOREP form to fill about my disabled worker's status and registration. And I wanted to ask him about having...
This has been a busy week. I set off for Paris on Monday to attend the first café-philo hosted by Cathy Kudlick (UCDavis), Lucie Fontaine et Jean-Baptiste Nanta, authors of the guide Paris en fauteuil held at Les associés , 50 boulevard de la Bastille....
I've been following Sam's progress for a long time - well, since 2005 when there started a website to fundraise for equipment for him http://stuff4sam.wordpress.com/ and had a link to this site since then. It is so sad to learn about his death - and that...
Its been some time since I last wrote. I have been up to my ears doing 35 hours of French a week and coping with other stuff as well. I have started my distance learning course with l'AFPA. I have also been editing and translating bits of work (call for...
2 links Asia Tsunami 2004: The Challenges of Disabled Survivors There were many people with a disability who survived this catastrophe or were unfortunately part of the staggering death toll in these countries where tsunamis came ashore. In addition,...
