I feel like if you are disabled, or have family members who are disabled, currently it’s a fight for survival . It shouldn’t feel like this, it really should not.

BookyMcBookface the big blue Mobile Library parked in Orphir. There is a light covering of snow on the ground

Guess who's back? Back again.

Booky's back. Tell a friend.

#BookyMcBookface is back on the road for the first time in 2025. Today he is in Orphir and Stenness, so go along and borrow some books! 📚

Also accessible does not take into account invisible disabilities.

Can flexible job design help people with fluctuating disabilities? In this blog piece, Catherine Hale outlines the early findings of a new study exploring the flexible working practices in the post-COVID era and their impact on disability employment outcomes.

9. Little will be achieved by ‘activating’ disabled people, even with the best quality employment support, if the jobs available to them are inaccessible due to the number of hours, the intensity of pace and inflexibility of location.

Link to this research www.kcl.ac.uk/can-flexible...

I love life but I think I should be able to decide when I die ‘One of my greatest joys is walking away from a party I’m not enjoying any more. Everyone should be able to say when they want to leave’

It's the vote today. My column on assisted dying: www.thetimes.com/magazines/th...

Always join in. It's the fun bit of being a parent. Plus you get to steal the popcorn.

Today is thst darkest of anniversaries, 13 years since I took a call from the desk asking me to check out a report that Gary Speed, the football hero, my friend, was dead. I’ll never forget that morning.
My thoughts are with those closest to him on this awful anniversary.
Talk to someone.

You're a hero.

And it already happens. What also happens is job offers they can't get to, or courses they're not interested in etc They need to make it work for the people who need help before threatening to put people into poverty.

I'd love that.

You can not like most of the others though.

Except Mary Poppins right?

You're a better person than I. Id be drinking that hot tea while watching them struggle.

"English just doesn't play fair does it?"

My 9 year old with dyslexia when he's finished his spelling and literacy homework.

Not much I can say to that.

So frustrating. His classmate has dyslexia and my son was shocked that they have totally different resource trays. He's only heard from school dyslexia = can't read, write or spell.

Yep. Last year it was a focus on writing, now spelling. Ignoring support he needs in areas like audio processing, following instructions, organisation - the list seems to grow the older he gets.

Apparently as my son's spelling has improved he hasn't been considered for a slot with his learning support teacher. Because apparently we all know that dyslexia is measured by spelling alone... This argument is so last year! Exhausting.

They should've done it properly. We're really lucky here, with the local farm shops so you can see the work into produce you're getting. But a fairer system is needed, top to bottom. We need farms so a little time to get it right is better than protests.

Flip side is lots of local farmers near us which are family owned and run. Have been for generations. Not sure preventing them from being passed down while rich twits like Duke of Westminster escape taxes is a winner.

White Spaniel laying on his back on the grass, legs in the air with his ball toy in his mouth hoping for more play.

Brown and white Spaniel running towards the camera on green grass at the park, ears flapping showing joy at the run.

Meet the poles apart Spaniels that keep our Visually impaired and neurodivergent son incredibly busy and happy! #dogs

Oh, you "heard" there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord? Cite your sources, bro. This is how misinformation spreads

Hobbes is brilliant. Genuinely think you should do a travel show. We'll all watch for Hobbes mostly! So glad to find you on here too.

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Its zero degrees

I run a CSR called @beaniesmasato.bsky.social they are here you buy a beanie they donate a beanie to homeless outreach

So far 317 raised

300 distributed to homeless outreach and on homeless heads

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