A Wheel and Away
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  • Front page news!

    I was very happy to see that my recent article for UCan2 magazine made the front cover! UCan2 is a successful disability magazine, distributed across the UK. It covers a range of topics relevant to the disability community. The feature highlights Sweden as a destination and outlines a number of reasons why it should be…

  • When in Rome…

    I was delighted recently to be asked to contribute an article to the May issue of Lifestyle magazine about travelling to Rome. This is published on behalf of Motability and is distributed to around 640,000 people around the UK. The magazine deals with all manner of disability issues and the piece I wrote was for…

  • Mayhem in Paris

    Molly has always had a thing about Paris.  She even had a Paris themed birthday one year.  So much so in fact, that it was a long-standing promise that I would take her for a girlie weekend away when she finished her GCSE’s.  Just her and me for a long weekend.  It was going to be utter heaven.  Or would…

  • Visiting Copenhagen for wheelchair users

    So how does Copenhagen rate for the wheelchair user? The first thing I noticed when getting off the train in Copenhagen was how flat everywhere was.  Not in terms of hills but in terms of pavements. Having spent previous travels manoeuvring wheelchairs up two-foot kerbs and along jungle paths this was a welcome and refreshing…

  • For Harper and Atticus

    I first read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee as a teenager and have loved it ever since.  So for me it was an absolute that our road trip through Alabama should include a pilgrimage to Monroeville, the small southern town where Harper Lee grew up.

    Monroeville is the real life incarnation of Maycomb, the fictional…