Happy New Year to all of my readers. I discussed my aims for 2021 in a previous blog, which can be seen here. I just wanted to add that I am ready to make big changes to the way in which I live my life. I can no longer afford to suffer fools gladly and […]
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Regular readers will know that I am a sucker for a good list. I have to complete things in sets, such as the 80 fibreglass owls that made up the Big Hoot back in 2015 or my quest around the Welsh Premier League grounds in 2011/12. This is not to mention my tour of the
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I am sick of reading sentences about how difficult 2020 has been for people, when it has been no different for myself and the majority of other disabled people. Being stuck indoors with very little to keep us entertained or stimulated is par for the course for large sections of society and it has been
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I have received the following email from Disability Wales, concerning advice to the extremely vulnerable over the festive period. It is essential reading for all those living in Wales during this pandemic. Hope everyone has a safe and peaceful festive period. *** Dear Members, The advice to those who are clinically extremely vulnerable, previously ‘shielding’
Earlier this year, I composed the following blog about my desire to help win justice for Gerald Marshall. It can be viewed by following this link. Please see below, the artwork of this exceptionally talented individual who is being wrongfully incarcerated on Death Row in Texas as highlighted in the above link. These paintings should
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I can’t believe we are already in the last month of 2020. The year has just flown by, probably due to the fact that nobody has had anything to look forward to except further frustration. Unbelievably, I am in the same situation that I was this time last year, and the year before that, and
Brussels, 3 December – To mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the European Network on Independent Living – ENIL calls on Governments to stop delaying deinstitutionalisation reforms and start providing opportunities for independent living and being included in the community for all disabled people, as a matter of priority. Public funds, especially those coming
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PRESS RELEASE: 76% of Disabled People Surveyed ARE NOT CONFIDENT THAT THEIR RIGHTS WILL IMPROVE IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. Research from Disability Wales has shown that 76% of disabled people surveyed are not confident that their rights will improve over the next five years. The same survey showed that 68% of disabled people did
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THURSDAY, 3 DECEMBER 2020 7 – 9pm Facebook Live with British Sign Language and live captions On International Day of Disabled People, DPAC and the Peoples Assembly Against Austerity will be co-hosting an extended evening of politics, conversation, music and comedy to celebrate Deaf and disabled people’s resistance from austerity and welfare reform to Covid-19
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I am not liking this new WordPress design that is highlighted in the YouTube video below. You won’t even realise that there has been a change, but the editor in which writers create posts, has been radically updated for the worse. Why do companies have to change things, just for the hell of it? The
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