It's 'interesting' seeing people calling for a police officer to be charged with manslaughter where someone has already been convicted of the murder of the individual concerned. That's going to be a pretty strong defence!

I wonder how one of the main 'acts' on Britain's Got Talent being sponsored/supported by an alcohol brand aligns with the rules on product placement and alcohol advertising

In the days before pens like the Rotring isograph, there was the lining pen. The point was adjustable to alter the line thickness. My mum used them a lot as a trained "Lady Tracer" in a shipyard as tracing was one of the main ways of duplicating engineering drawings.

I do have to love those 'homesteader' types who claim to be living free yet can only do so because of the wider industrial society. They're not making their own tools or jars for preserving from scratch

I'm at an appointment that's being held in a specialist Parkinson's unit. There's no space in the waiting area for wheelchair users and the access buzzer is at standing shoulder height. Obviously as a wheelchair user I'm not welcome

I'm baffled by my pancreas. Two weeks ago I was injecting 52 units of long acting insulin daily and staying in range 90% of the time. Now I'm not using any and staying in range 92% of the time. 🤷‍♂️

Found myself thinking about disability and sexuality this morning. A significant proportion of the disabled people I know are LGBTQ. Way more than the proportion in the wider population. I find this interesting

My endocrinologist told me to stop using insulin on Friday and it feels odd after just over a year of daily injections of quite large doses

At endocrinology today they wanted to measure my height and weight. They got confused when I asked if that should be with or without prosthetic legs

Annoyed that I've been told the target HbA1c that I've worked towards over the last year is too low and I've been taking too much insulin. I've managed 90% time in range but apparently I'm doing it wrong.

That thing where you find out your disability that's impacted your whole life has also doubled your risk of a particular cancer. It's also likely to be discovered at a later stage and significantly earlier in life. 10% of the people I've known with my disability have been diagnosed at stage 4

I fancied trying to get out in nature this coming weekend so had a look at the @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social website. Of their 35 sites only one has disabled parking and none has an accessible trail.

Slightly diminish a book... Fairly Close to the Madding Crowd

Unless wheelchair users can document a sub-3hr marathon time, they have to use a day chair rather than a race chair. I'm proposing that unless runners can document a sub-4hr marathon they aren't allowed to wear running shoes in the interests of equality

Grogu Everywhere, All at Once

I've lost my photography mojo and need to do something about it. Does anyone know of any wheelchair accessible photowalks in London?

My local NHS trust have failed to respond to my complaint within the appropriate timescale. I tried calling them but always got the answer machine. Today I found out that it's always on for "confidentiality reasons". I'm told messages are dealt with in 3 working days but I doubt it.

I wonder how much faster the wheelchair records would be for the marathon if there were pacemakers like the elite runners have

I'm currently involved in 'discussions' about accessing a medication that will reduce the impact of my diabetes. It's prescribed partly based on BMI. BMI doesn't work for amputees so why is it one of the criteria for my eligibility?

After seeing a story in the Telegraph about continuing denial of justice, this photo seems apt. An event so appalling, it got it's own chapter in the report of the public inquiry into the wider catastrophe Volume_2.pdf share.google/kE8JURqfGW69...

Why do people who were good at PE years ago get to be taken seriously?

If you're a wheelchair user, you can only use a race chair with evidence of another sub-3hr marathon time. You have to use a day chair otherwise. I think there should be a similar rule for runners. If you can't do under 4hrs, no running shoes, just ordinary ones

Can somebody explain to me why darts is a gender split 'sport'? Are there different weights of darts for men and women?

Yesterday I got a letter re a hospital test for an appointment I've got at the end of October. How useless as in 6 months time, the results may have changed. Between Feb 2025 and Feb 2026 the same test results changed significantly. This test now is clinically meaningless in October

Looking at my next motability car as my current one has to go back in October. For a like for like swap, the advance payment has increased by over 300%! Up from £1,250 to £3,999. This is for an Astra, nothing flash

Well, I took the plunge and it's arrived! Just need to build up my arms to use it!

I've been referred to the gastro team by my GP. They've requested endoscopy and other tests before seeing me. Endoscopy appointment came through quickly. Gastro appointment is by phone at the end of October. Not sure how they'll examine me properly over the phone. They'll miss key information

Film types, I'm looking at getting a medium format camera and wondering if a Bronica ir Mamiya is best to start with and which model folks would recommend

Yet another hospital waiting room without any space for wheelchair users. I'm not surprised given the lower height section of the reception desk was blocked off so I had to reach up to it

I've found my Minox C subminiature camera and need to put a film through it to see if it works

Add a food to a movie title: There Will Be Blood Oranges

A combination of posts on here has just made something fall into place in my head. I went to a boarding school for disabled kids and I've just realised how many of us had depression, mostly due to all the crap in our lives. Disability, surgery, being away from home and death of peers 1/2

I really want the first comment from the #ArtemisII crew when they come back to be "Moon's haunted"

I've got a new question to ask clinicians who make decisions about my health care without having met me. It definitely sifts out those who haven't read my notes or have incomplete notes. It's "how many feet have I got?"

I need to switch wheelchair services following a move. The new service needs the old one to refer me to them. The old one needs the new one to request a transfer, so it's an impass. They're both managed by the same private contractor. Other option is a new referral by GP and have a 2 year wait

Has anyone else had " telephone appointment where no one will phone you" as part of a referral? Just tried to follow-up on one of these and there's nothing on my notes about it according to the hospital. The appointment has vanished from the NHS app too. It was at 20:40 which is a really odd time

TfL staff at London Bridge played a blinder today. Northern Line trains were all Edgware branch with the recommendation to change at Camden Town which isn't step-free. Asked a staff member and they and others got one rerouted to the High Barnet branch

It's been a good day for dogs on the tube. A poodle, a samoyed and a border terrier

I do wonder how aware bipeds are. Tube carriage has 4 people in it but one of them is sat in the wheelchair space. I suspect they weren't adequately socialised by their parents.

Has anyone nominated Fenton for the new bank notes?

Historian friends, anyone got any reading recommendations on the Disability Discrimination Act / related campaigns in Australia? And/or on the way that different anti-discrimination Acts related to each other esp. in the 1990s?

Definitely not impressed with Channel 4's Paralympic coverage. Most of it is on YouTube rather than broadcast. The highlights programme is only 30 minutes too

One of my favourite techniques for dealing with not being taken seriously by medical consultants is asking if they'd be happy defending their decision making to a coroner or being a party in a regulation 28 letter.

When I was at secondary school, over 120 other pupils were infected with (mostly) fatal viruses. It was so bad it ended up getting it's own chapter in the public inquiry report (after over 80 had died)

Was told by my GP yesterday that I don't fit the bmi requirements to be prescribed a medication. I'm a double amputee with scoliosis, how exactly are you calculating my bmi accurately?

Had one of those "are phones reading our minds" moments the other day. I was talking about a over-engineered ruler I had at school. There are several variations of the type and I gave a very generic description. Browsing social media after, saw a photo with exactly the ruler I was thinking of.

Just received a hospital appointment letter for a telephone appointment at 8:40pm which seemed odd. I then read further and it says no one will call, they'll just triage my referral. A very odd definition of an appointment and I doubt a medic will be sat in an office at that time doing anything

Can anyone recommend some free or cheap software for designing something for 3d printing? I've got an idea for a widget that I want to have a go at getting someone to print for me

Spending this weekend summarising a year's worth of medical note including the time I nearly died. It's going to be tough

'Interesting' that in the 0930 BBC news on 6Music, the report on the by-election had spokespeople from Labour and Reform but nothing from the winning party.