Blog post following Priority
Check out the blog from Fr Tim Finigan, highlighting Priority.
Please send out to anyone you know who’d be interested.
http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/2011/02/priority-trust.html
Archive for February, 2011
Sunnier Days launches 1st Online Disability Seminar with JTSMA
Hi readers. Another week has passed already. I am keen to tell you about a new project I am working on for Sunnier Days (my social enterprise). Therefore I will share Thursday nights debauchery and this weekends fun in a separate blog over the next couple of days on my site.
Sunnier Days is the very personal name I have given to the ‘vehicle’ enabling me to make some of my ideas around disability a reality. Those close to me refer to my positive attitude, my love of sunny holidays and because my projects (the blog, work with Hackney council and DisabilityLib) are about improving things – Sunnier Days felt right and was born!
So what is this project about? You may …
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Singapore and Bali
After coming back from California, I immediately, got ready to embark on the final stage of my travels around the world. The plan was to spend three days in Singapore and then ten days in Bali, where I would meet up with a friend of mine, Andrew who is also a wheelchair user, and his PA. The main highlight of this trip was a scuba dive in Bali which we specially organised and was an absolutely incredible experience.
By way of a little background to those who haven’t read any of my previous travel articles, this trip was part of my travels around the world during my time off from work. I work as a solicitor as at a commercial …
California (with a Boston stopover)
California was the next stage of my travels, where I was accompanied by fellow blogger Martyn Sibley. I travelled several days before Martyn to see a friend in Boston before flying to San Francisco where I met up with Martyn.
Martyn’s blog entries provide a great account of our trip!
http://www.prioritytrust.org/blog/travel-planning-with-my-disability-its-10-times-more-important/
http://www.prioritytrust.org/blog/accessibility-in-las-vegas/
http://www.prioritytrust.org/blog/california-dreaming-teething-problems-and-jack-black/
Adventure to South Africa!
Its 6.30 in the morning of October 25, I am staring out the window of our van, my heart beating slightly faster than usual with my eyes fixated and staring in awe towards an another anonymous tree. The creature lying in the tree shaded from the morning sunshine is no ordinary sight by any means. My attention is captured with a mix of fear and awe by a beautiful leopard, one of nature’s most fearsome predators gazing out across the open savannah on probably what for amazing creature just another normal day in Kruger National Park.
This is an article about my most incredible adventure to South Africa which took me to Johannesburg, the Kruger National Park and its surrounding highlands …
One month to heartbreak – update
Here’s an update from Martyn Sibley on the One month to Heartbreak campaign….
Wow! What a week. Firstly, since my BBC breakfast appearance and more importantly the blog on the DLA consultation. General feedback from the ‘one month before heartbreak’ blogswarm has been positive. It received coverage on the following links, as only a starter and taster:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/18/disabled-protesters-one-month-before-heartbreak
http://www.goodaccessguide.co.uk/news/info.php?refnum=544
http://www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/latest-news/1285-protests-against-benefits-cuts
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/service-user-voice/2011/01/disabled-people-and-service-users-will-be-heard-we-will-be-listened-to-ombh.html#more
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/01/17/does-the-broken-of-britain-campaign-need-celebrity-support/
Thanks to Emma (TweetHandle: @funkyfairy22) for providing this information. Also Kaliya (TweetHandle: @Bendygirl) was on Talk Radio Europe speaking about Broken of Britain and the great campaign http://thebrokenofbritain.blogspot.com/2011/01/benefit-claimants-fight-back.html. Lets hope the government have taken note of this and reconsider their policy decisions around DLA next month, and indeed on disability issues generally!