The 3 BBS Ticks are the gold standard for style and accessibility. Today we’re giving out 3 Ticks for the following… What To See I recently went to see the Oscar nominated film WHIPLASH and it was brilliant, even if you’re not a fan of Jazz or drumming. If J.K. Simmons doesn’t win an Oscar for…
Disabled music fans are back in the news and fortunately this time it’s not because they’ve found themselves unintentionally on the wrong end of an ill-conceived Kanye West rant. This week we’ve seen disabled people putting themselves in the news in order to both criticise and offer a solution to the terrible lack of disabled access…
The more you look around you the more you find that even the most adventurous activities can now be made available to people with disabilities. Whether it’s skiing down the sides of mountains, racing full pelt in motor cars or flying (even ) a plane, someone with a disability has done it and shown that almost anything is possible…
The Sports Bar & Grill, in the upper reaches of London Waterloo train station, is part of a chain of bars that pretty much do what they say on the tin. It’s an American style sports bar, where people can sit in front of the many plasma screens and watch ‘the game’ with a beer…
Update Jan 2015: Caxton Grill , reviewed below, does indeed have fabulous food and service, as well as an atmosphere that’s buzzy but not too loud. However, there are a couple of things to look out for: 1. The tables have balls on the end of their legs which meant I had to sit 12″ (approx)…
Painting is hard, but painting without the use of your hands is much harder. However, not being able to use their hands hasn’t stopped a great many talented men and women from becoming professional artists, with the help of the Mouth and Foot Painting Artists organisation. Formed in 1957, the MFPA partnership is the British organisation…
Yesterday, to tie in with the final week of the 2014 Formula One Championship, we wrote about the ways which less able drivers can take part in motor sports. But we decided, since the F1 are doubling up this week with double points, we’d do something similar. Here’s part two of our disabled motor racing…
All eyes will be on Abu Dhabi this weekend as the Formula One machine rolls into town for the final, title deciding, race of the season. After ten wins from eighteen races over eight months, fifty five laps of the desert track are all that stand between Lewis Hamilton and his second Formula One Drivers’…
Here’s the latest report from the American Lieutenant. This week I attended the opening ceremony of a Mouth and Foot painting exhibition currently showing at Whiteleys shopping centre, Bayswater, from 25th September until 30th October. The event was officially opened by Lindsey Hall, prospective MP for Westminster North, lindsey@lindseyhall.co.uk, and after a short speech from her, the…