April 2024 Favourites

Hey there, hope you’re all doing well. I’m good, although like all disabled people in the UK I feel great unease over the government’s proposed changes to our benefits. My PIP review still hasn’t been dealt with after 9 months as it is. I’m not going to rant about it here though – I’ve posted a brief thread and shared several other posts on my Twitter/X page if you want a wider sense of people’s reactions. But please do read the proposals and respond to the consultation if you can (by 22nd July), as it’s vitally important to have our voices heard at this early stage. Same goes for the separate consultation about fit notes (until 8th July) too.

But anyway, on to much nicer things, and there’s plenty that I’ve enjoyed during this past month, including a couple of exhibitions, a West End musical, a theatre workshop, stand-up gigs and other comedy shows. One of the exhibitions was a press invite for my journalist friend Emily, and I’m due to be paid for the workshop I took part in, but nothing is sponsored to be featured here and all opinions are my own as usual.

So let’s crack on with this month’s post and video, and I hope you enjoy!

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Paws On The Wharf

It goes without saying really, but guide dogs are beautiful, incredible and vitally important companions to many people with sight loss. And right now there’s a sculpture trail in London dedicated to these life-changing and life-saving animals. This post isn’t a sponsored ad for it, but it’s something I think is well worth exploring if you’re in the capital.

Paws On The Wharf has been organised by the Guide Dogs charity in association with Wild In Art (who were also behind Morph’s Epic Art Adventure & Walking With The Snowman that I saw last year).

It features 25 sculptures of guide dogs decorated in a variety of ways by different artists, which will be on display until 17 May, after which they’ll be auctioned off. It’s all about raising awareness and vital funds to ensure that people with sight loss will continue to be supported by these magnificent beasts.

I had fun hunting them all down, so in this post I’m going to share some of my photos of these pedigree chums, all of which I thought were beautiful, and I hope you enjoy looking through them!

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July 2017 Favourites

Hello again, hope you’re doing well! This has been another busy and very enjoyable month, most significantly including my first experiences of audio described museum tours, along with more social events, festivals and some other nice walks. So I hope you enjoy this latest roundup!

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