Disability in the fashion industry: where is it? Back in 1998 Alexander McQueen was the first designer to introduce disability in the fashion industry, Amy Mullins a double amputee athlete wore a pair of hand carved prosthetic legs. and strutted her stuff on the catwalk. It was seen as a ground breaking moment, an industry […]
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A letter to my first and forever love. I call myself a blogger and yet here I am at a loss of how to put pen to paper so-to-speak. There is no-one quite like you; fiercely loyal, utterly stubborn and hungry for knowledge. It’s you Harry Potter. You have been in my life for 20 […]
“Sleep is for the weak!” I screamed as the hospital ward lights flickered on. OK i’m joking. I was extremely tired and the combination of excruciating pain, and the constant need for the bathroom didn’t allow me any quality of sleep. I was fed, washed and dressed waiting for the Doctor to arrive. He came […]
I had a call Tuesday morning to let me know that my surgery would be the next day, no eating or drinking anything after midnight, I needed to arrive by 07:00 and I would be told where on the list I was for my operation. Grant and I managed to get lost; we rocked up […]
Grant and I headed off to A&E on Friday morning as previously discussed by the Doctors and ourselves in Malta. We are extremely grateful to our friends for picking us up from the airport, and then kindly carrying me to the sofa! As I had been in a foreign hospital I had no wheelchair or […]
I guess i should have known that things weren’t going to run so smoothly on our holiday to Malta; finding out just 4 days before the holiday that Low Cost Holidays had stolen £700 from us, “cleverly set the business up in Spain knowing their customers wouldn’t be ATOL protected and wouldn’t get their money […]
The Holiday I’ll never forget. We all look forward to a holiday don’t we? Whether it’s a cruise, beach/ poolside lounger or even a little weekend cottage We all look forward to a change of scenery, a bit of me time and most importantly a chance for you to do what you want when you […]
Let’s talk about the white cane acceptance, through my own story. White Cane Acceptance! Last week I filled out the fab VIP Daily living tag. Created by Holly and Elin and within this tag a question I answered I talked about how I embraced my cane after feeling self conscious. I also have been talking to […]
As you can probably guess from the title this is going to be a ranty post about my pet peeves of being blind… Skip this if you don’t want a headache from the whiny blind girl 😉 My Pet Peeves of Being Blind: 1. Calling my cane a stick. It is made from metal, and […]
Today I was tagged on Twitter by Someone’s Mum to share my thoughts on her recent post. I was responding via Twitter and then realise I didn’t just have a little something to say on the matter, but something much bigger. And this is where my post about what does disabled mean began. Firstly I’d […]