Author: Doug Paulley

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

Mark Sanderson – ex-head of Quality Improvement at Leonard Cheshire Disability

Mark Sanderson has left. This is the guy who tweeted “It’s albinism not albinos, dummies” in response to a media article, after being appointed Head of Quality Improvement at Leonard Cheshire and whilst still working for Mencap. When I tweeted a challenge to him using the word “dummies” as a pejorative, he complained to his…

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Trains and wheelchair access

Many here will know that I am a train fan, also that I’m a wheelchair user, and sometimes the two don’t mix. I have a family funeral at Enfield Crematorium in a couple of weeks, so I needed to book train travel. I thought I would list what happened as I tried to book train…

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Wetherby and Kielder Weather

OK not political, FoI or Disability related for once. I’ve been busy recently writing two Weather websites. The first, Wetherby Weather, started from a bargain basement purchase of a weather station on eBay. Using Cumulus and various utilities written by generous and talented third parties, that data is put on the Web – realtime and…

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