Author: Doug Paulley

Wheelchair user and residential care user, sometimes thorn in the side of authorities.

Leonard Cheshire’s lottery-fuelled Pandora’s box?

Leonard Cheshire have announced that the Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded them £242,250 to “enable the charity to use its archives to raise awareness about the history of disabled people“, topped up to £305,500 by two other charities. For their full, nauseating and uninteresting press release (why do charities write such?), [expand title=”View press release”] From: Selina Mills…

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“Wheelchair accessible” Taxis and School Transport

People who know me know that I’m the largest land mammal in the world. As such I struggle somewhat to get into most supposedly “accessible” taxis. I end up with my shoulders rammed against the ceiling; together with facing backwards it’s a recipe for discomfort and car-sickness. I thus prefer to use minibus taxis (or…

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The cost of orange peel

Our responsible citizen, Luke Gutteridge, was walking somewhere in Broxbourne council’s jurisdiction one day when he accidentally dropped a 10p sized piece of orange peel without noticing. A council enforcement officer spotted him and pointed out he’d dropped it. Mr Gutteridge immediately apologised and picked it up. That’s where this story would have stopped, but…

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