This weekend, one year on from the London 2012 Olympics, the stars of both the Olympics and the Paralympics are returning to the Olympic Stadium for the Anniversary Games – a three day athletics event. After two days of Diamond League Athletics – ‘headlined’ by Mo Farah, (hopefully) Jessica Ennis-Hill and Usain Bolt – the…
Yesterday we profiled how it has become easier for less able people to drive a car. Today we’re going to go one step further and tell you about Aerobility – the charity dedicated to teaching disabled people how to fly a plane. If space is the final frontier, then the skies are surely the penultimate…
It’s all over. The entire country’s annual, two week long obsession with tennis came to a glorious end on Sunday and our 77 year wait for a British Wimbledon Men’s Champion finally finished with it. What a crazy day it must have been for Andy Murray (by all accounts, soon to be Sir Andy Murray) becoming such…
Well I didn’t do much last week as my mind was wondering what I should say about ‘Why Modern London & Shoreditch Should Be Accessible’. It sounds like a ‘no brainer’, like why should Gay people be treated as equals. This was the subject of my presentation at Digital Shoreditch, ‘a celebration of creativity’. I came…
We’ve started the Blue Badge Style Sports Blog to help advise less able people on how to get into sports. In each blog we feature a different less able athlete writing about their own sport. This time we’re featuring Sledge Hockey player Matt Coleman. Matt is part of the GB Sledge Hockey team aiming to…
Sorry folks the Weds Wrap is a bit late this week due to a visit to the dentist and a charge of £300. Last week I had an appointment at the National Neurological Hospital in Queen Sq. London, and as a treat the Relative Lieutenant took me for lunch with his work colleagues to Ciao Bella…
I mentioned before in my Weds Wrap that I’m going to be speaking at Digital Shoreditch this month. It turns out that a lot of time needs to be spent preparing for this and honing my speech to perfection. This week I’ve had to write up a brief synopsis of what BBS is all about and what I’m…
I mentioned last week I was going to West Ham to see ManU play with Lieutenant No.1 and on the way we stopped off in Shoreditch for something to eat. We went to Albion which is the ‘caff’ part of the Conran, Boundary hotel. I love this hotel as they have accessible rooms and although…
An ice rink in Sheffield has started doing weekly sessions with disabled people during which they can have a go in these amazing looking bumper cars. iceSheffield have bought four adapted bumper cars, which look like giant inflatable rings and can glide around on the ice. The battery powered cars are controlled by joysticks on either…