A number of students from the University of Slough were forcibly removed from a Halloween party, at their halls of residence, last weekend for wearing ‘inappropriate’ costumes. But the strange thing is, they weren’t kicked out for wearing too little clothing, dressing as villainous historical characters, Nazis, or anybody recently deceased. The students dressed as…
We’re inviting anyone who wants to show support for quality disabled access, World Disability Day and Blue Badge Style to join in with our Guerrilla Sticker Campaign on the 3rd of December. Every year World Disability Day (officially know as International Day of People with Disability) falls on this day and this year we want…
Last week Max & I went to the Independent Hotel Show at Olympia to spread the word about BBS and our community of people who want more than a Holiday Inn Express. This indeed surprised a few people as we told them the disability market for hospitality was worth £2Bn a year in the UK…
For a week now we’ve been metaphorically piling up the things that people we know find frustrating about less able life, to toss onto our BBS Bonfire on Tuesday. So far we’ve by and large been trying to have a little bit of fun – although the issues are important to us it’s been more…
We were writing a post about the International Disability Day and whilst researching we noticed some of the alternative, strange and funny international days – so here are some of our favourites! Talk Like A Pirate Day – 19th September Gentlemen o’ fortune, Shiver me timbers we’ve missed this one but I thought it was well…
Run by A. Horne and Ted House the Hotel Bran UK is unfortunately a shadow of the grand castle it is said to have once been. However, my stay there was a little bit of an adventure. I was told by an old old friend that I should hurry there to check it out. “It’s…
Last week was the week when having a pee tried my patience! First I went to The Hampshire Hog, a GastroPub in Hammersmith, which is owned by the team that ran The Engineer in Primrose Hill. The Engineer is a well known celeb hang out but not so here, not yet. It’s got more of a…
We’re looking for less able people and their carers/attendants to join our BBS Interest Panel. It’s basically a forum to discuss all of the issues that affect less able life. We’re looking to open up a discussion about anything and everything that concerns the discerning less able. So if you have anything at all that you…
We have complained for a long time about the absence of a disabled toilet at the world famous Fat Duck restaurant, home to the eccentric culinary musings of one Mr Heston Blumethal. Why, we asked, is the famous home of molecular gastronomy – where science meets delicious – so appalling behind the times on disabled…