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Viewing entries posted in December 2009
The dance floor and I will not be meeting on New Year’s Eve
All right then. Christmas is over. You have had your fill of turkey for the year and then some, and it is time to get yourself ready for the next big event of the holiday calendar, New Year’s Eve. For us visually impaired folk, venturing out on New Year's Eve can only be described as being akin to Dante's Inferno.
One visually impaired girl’s take on the whole meaning of Christmas
Here we are, in the thick of the holiday season. Three days to go until Christmas and people are running around like headless chickens trying to find that perfect gift for that special person and fretting about that not very special relative that they feel obliged to spend Christmas day with.
The Conquering Hero
When I was at junior school my dad gave me a shilling to open a Yorkshire Bank account. He gave my sister one as well in the hope that we would become savers. Each week my sister added to it from her pocket money. On leaving junior school at eleven her shilling had grown to the princessly sum of two pounds ten and sixpence. Mine was still a shilling. My dad rued, 'the trouble with you lad is money burns holes in your pockets'. I’ve not changed. This year I got my local government lump sum pension in my pockets, so now I’m blowing it on a trip to Antarctica.
A measured approach to disclosing a disability
Through my journey into the world of all things visually impaired, I have met some very interesting people, but because I am a tad animated and somewhat opinionated, they don’t seem to see my fluffy marshmallow centre.
Not designed to be user friendly
The Department of Work and Pensions are submitting increasing numbers of people to medical examination. The purpose is to establish a person's capability to work. Whilst this is laudable, the other agenda of getting as many people as possible off sickness and disability related benefits is not. Should we be concerned?
Moving from the mainstream to the disabled-stream with grace
We went to our local mall on Saturday morning. Yes, I realise it is December and that going to the mall on a Saturday morning and having any hope of not doing the cane dance with someone’s stiletto’s is slim, but my son had some very important business over at HMV.
Unsung heroes win benefit overpayment trial
Tucked away in White Lion Street near the Angel tube station is the main office of Child Poverty Action Group. Their recent Court of Appeal victory will prevent distress for people with social security benefit overpayments.
Changing the world requires patience and persistence
I confess. I want to change the world. I know it is a tall order, but I don’t like what I see, or can’t see for that matter, and I want to do something about it. But life, I am afraid, is just not that simple and I seem to have been doing a better job of placing obstacles in my own path than I am in removing them.
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