I’m light-on for written blogging right now, so here’s a recipe for something I made last week. I take no credit for the recipe. It’s almost exactly the recipe on the Pampas pack, except I’ve subbed in vanilla bean paste… Read More ›
Miscellaneous
So, Sprog the Younger now has dental braces
and most of her diet will have to change – she’s been rather a fan of all those chewy foods that are now totally contraindicated. What have other parents of the be-braced found is good? She can’t live just on… Read More ›
Traumatic brain injury is not “pretending”, Clementine Ford.
Well, this is one of the most enormous pieces of disability fail I’ve seen in the mainstream media for quite a while; and it comes not from Andrew Bolt and friends, but from someone who calls herself a feminist. I… Read More ›
Open Letter to Disability Orgs re Proposed Accessible Parking Rules – Please Co-Sign
Join our Facebook group – “Against the Proposed Narrowing of Accessible Parking Permit Eligibility“! ~~~ Further to Beppie’s form letter for you to send to government, Wildly Parenthetical and I have been collaborating on a letter to send to community… Read More ›
CALL TO ACTIVISM – Many people with disabilities to be excluded from accessible parking under proposed scheme
Join our Facebook group – “Against the Proposed Narrowing of Accessible Parking Permit Eligibility“! ~~~ UPDATE 1 June 2009: Please see this new post about the current State and Territory eligibility criteria for accessible parking permits: “Harmonisation” of disabled parking… Read More ›
Disability and masturbation – how can sisters do it for themselves?
Reading this review of “Getting Off” by Jamye Waxman at Menstrual Poetry, I started to wonder: who’s assessing sex toys from an accessibility point of view? Where are the easy-grip variety-of-angles assistive devices for women with a range of different… Read More ›
Can I have a seat? Blogging Against Disablism Day, 2009
Blogging Against Disablism Day 2009 Strategically placed seating costs next to nothing for a business to implement. It requires no building modification. And it can make a huge difference to accessibility for some people with disabilities. Bouquets and Brickbats A… Read More ›
Every egg in the carton so far has been like this
Double yolks.
That Koala from the Fires – Video
Via A.E.Brain, video of the rescue of that koala who was stuck, dehydrated and with burnt paws, after the Victoria bushfires. More here at the Herald, showing Sam’s journey on the mend. She now has another koala to cuddle. You… Read More ›
Blub
If you’re in the bushfire zone looking for something to do to help and you’ve already donated to the Red Cross and the CFA, your local wildlife rescue service could probably do with a hand – ring them and ask them if they need some eucalyptus leaves from your garden trees, or some help filling water containers in the shelters, or just a cash donation.
Hoyden About Town 