At the Alternative Limb Project, prosthetic legs aren’t seen as impediments but instead as blank canvases for art and expression. They create beautifully imagined prostheses, unlike anything you’ve ever seen, that are bespoke and uniquely tailored to the wearer’s taste and requirements. They’re functional, unusually stylish, quirky and different, making them alternative in many a sense…
Google Glass is a new piece of technology that “has a camera, it speaks to you (and you to it), and gives contextual information about what’s in front of your eyes – in effect, an audio-visual information filter between you and the world.” Ultimately it is a wearable computer like in all the sci-fi films. It…
With less than three weeks to go until Christmas, now is the time to really start thinking about doing some shopping, if you haven’t already. As we’ve said before, it’s not necessary when you’re shopping for a less able friend or family member to concentrate entirely on their disability. Nine times out of ten you…
The Boathouse is located right on the river front in Cambridge and has a decking outside so you can sit and enjoy the view of the river and Midsummer Common in the summer. If you did want to get food here, you should know that it’s token ‘pub grub’. The pub is part of Greene King…
Blue Badge Style founder, Fiona Jarvis, has been interviewed by the UK’s leading restaurant guide, The Good Food Guide. In the interview, published to coincide with International Day of People with Disability, Fiona talked about the top bugbears for less able diners, the ways to improve accessibility in restaurants and the aims of Blue Badge…
The Musical Lieutenant has sent us her story of becoming temporarily disabled on holiday this summer and her terrible trip home. It turns out that East Asia may be quite a lot better for wheelchair users than England is…. Over the summer, I was fortunate enough to go travelling in Asia. I was mainly in…
The Wrap is short this week as I’m feeling a little poorly after a night out with the Blue Badge Style team. We started at Archer Street cocktail bar and then had dinner at Brasserie Zedel both as good as our previous reviews indicated. The American Lieutenant nearly got up and sang with the waiters…
The Pig & Whistle is an old fashioned pub, owned by Simon Rogan in the village of Cartmel, Cumbria. For a long time the pub was Rogan’s local – a classic country pub in the village where he set up his Michelin-starred restaurant, L’Enclume – and he has looked to maintain the place’s aesthetic since taking…
There’s nothing quite like sneaking into a nice warm pub to escape the cold and celebrate Christmas with friends and family. As we enter December and everywhere starts to book up in the run up to Christmas we thought we’d suggest some of the country’s finest pubs to go to, particularly with an eye on…