Blog Posts

  • The Apprentice – Week three: Flat packs and brain whacks

    After last week’s episode two which involved creating a new flavoured beer –  a task won by Team Endeavour, their second win in a row – the pressure was on for Team Evolve to pull out all the stops (corks?) to impress Lord Sugar. But would they succeed in sweetening him this time? Addressing the…

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  • The Apprentice – Week one: Count Dracula, illiterate teachers and way too many lucky cat products

    14 weeks. 16 candidates.  All wanting that one exclusive deal with Lord Sugar. The golden fleece: A £250k investment in a Lord Sugar business. Personally, I can’t quite see any of them making the grade, but maybe the next few weeks or so will change my mind. Maybe not. A change from the usual format…

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  • Romania: not just a country of communist blocks

    As Daily-Mail readers froth at the mouth about the mythical ‘influx’ of Romanians and Bulgarians expected to descend upon the UK (they might eat your babies!), I for one am hoping that soon, Brits (disabled and otherwise) will soon be descending upon Romania.  Contrary to mainstream opinion – Romania is very different to what is…

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  • Being pregnant and disabled doesn’t get you a seat on public transport

    I didn’t always to feel so nervous about assertiveness whilst travelling. I used to think nothing of standing up to bullies at school and intervening when I saw someone being picked on. Even at 17, when I witnessed with horror a load of school kids literally ‘hanging’ a kid by his backpack on a double…

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  • “I’d have given you the post, but you’re pregnant”

    Pregnancy should be a magical, special time. Magical, that is, unless you’re one of the unlucky 2 per cent of women who develop hyperemesis gravidarum, an extreme form of all-day sickness and nausea in pregnancy. Sickness aside, the months of growing a baby inside you and the time after enjoying your little one should be…

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  • My journey with Hyperemesis Gravidarum

    I’ve decided to do a one-off blog about my journey with Hyperemesis Gravidarum. Maybe this could be deemed as pretty self-indulgent and maybe it is, but it’s been so horrendous, it’s all I can think about. That and counting down the days left until I meet my little girl (154, give or take). I’m one…

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  • DWP: “Workfare does not exist”

    As part of an article I am writing for a disability magazine, I contacted the DWP press office to get their take on the various work programmes which are floating about. I didn’t want to present an article that could be accused of ‘reporter bias’, so speaking to them to directly was important. (Although I…

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