How much do you know about Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?
The silent killer as Carbon Monoxide poisoning is known is frightening in just how quickly it can either damage you drastically and permanently or heaven forbid kill you! To make sure you know what to...
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A morning of cleaning…
This morning we ran our volunteer project at Safe Play – a monthly opportunity for teenagers, with or without disabilities to come and experience working life, namely Safe Play Sparkle. Today a local...
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Repetition, repetition, repetition….
The ever interesting, demanding and wonderful world of ASD surrounds my life in many ways and most of it I embrace and feel comfortable around as it’s always been in life. My very lovely brother has...
View ArticleLucky me and thank goodness for our NHS
I have got to be at the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Gobowen in Shropshire at 7-15 this Saturday morning to hopefully have a hip replaced. I know that I am going into what is...
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Why Home Lifts Are Becoming The Favoured Alternative To The Ageing Stairlift
For decades many people with mobility problems have had to rely on little else but the ageing stairlift to get help get them from the downstairs of their home to the upstairs. However despite being on...
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Stroke Awareness Day
Today I’ve been to the home of Blackburn Rovers, Ewood Park. Blackburn with Darwen council had organised a day for local service providers to get together and inform the local community about what’s on...
View ArticleFaith, hope and love
I was at the funeral yesterday of a lovely lady who I used to see regularly when I worked with her grandson who has autism. And what a lovely lady she was. She lived her life caring for others both...
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So, what are you doing for Children In Need tomorrow?
Tomorrow is the 28th Children In Need appeal. It’s a fundraiser that so many of us get involved in whether it be dressing up, baking cakes, bidding thousands of pounds for money can’t buy opportunities...
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Have you heard of Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome?
Last night Rob from Safe Play was having a chat with our evening visitors – a group of adults with disabilities that visits Safe Play weekly. The carers were commenting on how great the visits were for...
View ArticleThe cold weather is coming, how will it affect those people in wheelchairs?
The weather forecasts today are all of doom & gloom for the end of the week, with a real cold snap predicted, this can have real bad affects on people in wheelchairs. Once we start to see ice about...
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A cold and windy December day
It’s cold and it’s windy so generally pretty rotten outside. The special school which was booked in to volunteer at Safe Play today have been advised not to travel on the motorway today so aren’t...
View ArticleJust where do you keep your mobility scooter
For many of us nowadays we are getting to the stage where by a mobility scooter is our escape from home, but one of the big problems can be where you actually keep it. Houses, bungalows or even flats...
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Countdown to Christmas!
I’m not into the early build up to Christmas really. Seeing all the Christmas paraphernalia in the shops in November automatically gets me annoyed! But…. it’s only a week until the big day now so I...
View ArticleAre Self Drive Holidays The Future?
Booking an adapted vehicle in advance from the UK to drive on holiday can make for a great foreign holiday. Being able to drive means that you don’t feel constrained to stay in one resort and can...
View ArticleGetting old is not recommended!
At some point in this year I will reach the right old age of 70, the people that know me and love me will tell you I don’t look a day over 45, the only thing is though that I have to pay them lots of...
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Healthy Risk Taking
Imagine a life without taking any risk at all….. Not all risk is equivalent to swimming with sharks or dangerously speeding down a motorway to make a meeting. It’s the little risks we take everyday...
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I’ve been thinking…
I’ve been thinking….. Since the turn of the New Year, many of us of course have super ideas about how we’re going to change our lives for the better – more time with the kids, eat less red meat,...
View ArticleHow do we make people aware of CO poisoning?
We are all probably aware of the dangers of Carbon Monoxide poisoning but perhaps without as much knowledge as we actually need! I was sent a link recently by a friend of mine to a story on CNN news...
View ArticleWonderful weather fancy and early Barbeque?
If the weather around where you live has been anything like the last few days here in wonderful North Wales then you may well be thinking of actually trying to have a barbeque this weekend and what a...
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Education, Health and Social Care plans
I’ve been reading up on the changes coming into practice in September 2014 with special educational needs… What a task lies ahead for all involved; schools, colleges, local authorities and of course...
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