ZSL Special Children’s Day is brilliant special event, welcoming children with special needs and their families and friends to London and Whipsnade Zoos. The annual special needs day has been running for years at London Zoo and was voted Best Education Project: Public and General Visitor at BIAZA Annual Awards in 2012. It’s a real inclusive treat…
We’ve never really covered electric wheelchairs or power chairs in any great amount of detail on BBS for a number of reasons. Partly it’s because, with the importance of individual requirements, the prices involved and the provision of power chairs, we’re just not that sure how much influence a style guide would have. But what…
This week has been a trial by pavement. My bones have been shaken & stirred and not in a good way. Firstly, I and the Mancunian Lieutenant decided that after a hair appointment in Richmond, we should wheel down to the Crown in Twickenham (great pub with fab garden see previous review). Little did I…
On Tuesday we posted a piece about the problems that one of our readers has had accessing cruise ships. Her husband, as a wheelchair user, has found that two cruise companies have provided issues relating to accessibility (i.e. weren’t very accessible). We got in touch with the relevant companies to ask what the deal is…
We recently received word of some fairly lousy attitudes towards accessibility on holiday cruises. Margaret contacted us with two stories of cruise companies which were a bit of a let down in this area. Firstly, this is what happened when she called up to book with a firm called Cruise and Maritime: “I was making…
Every industry seems to have its own small part of the year that’s devoted to ‘awards season’. Rather than spreading out the accolades throughout the year, we get a concentrated span of time during which the majority of it all happens at once. This particular time of year is when the world’s best designers take…
Blue Badge Style has become “a member of the British Hospitality Association in a bid to bring accessibility to the forefront of the industry’s attention”. They agree that “The Blue £ is set to get bigger” and Pictorial Access Descriptions are “a low cost way to improve the service they (hotels & restaurants) provide for visitors…
Tomorrow is the day of the most famous horse race in the world – the Grand National. Due to its length and the difficulty of its jumps, including the infamous Becher’s Brook and The Chair, the Grand National been described as the ultimate test of horse and rider. In a crowded field the forty jockeys…
This week I headed to Fitzrovia to try out the fantastic Ollie Dabbous’ new, lower budget, restaurant. Charlotte Street is a real haven for style seekers and discerning diners and The Barnyard proved to be no exception. First of all, the food was excellent – quite basic on paper but absolutely fantastically flavoured and brilliant value too.…