Toast.

I am so sick of people assuming I can always manage inaccessible venues - which gets them off the hook from having to arrange accessible ones - because I sometimes use crutches. My church is holding confirmation classes in a venue with what the priest says has "a few shallow steps". Well, doesn't that get him out of having to think about access? (I don't think he realises that this is going to go into my research into churches and disability.) It means that the burden moves onto me - the burden of finding accessible parking near enough that I can walk in, the coping with steps, the sitting on unsuitable chairs in pain for an hour and a half...

This isn't right. Society creates disabling situations, and that means people need to think about things like access - it's not all my responsibility. I've e-mailed the priest to say I'm 'worried' about access. I could have been stronger, but I'm British and passive-aggressive. (Wish I'd inherited more Irish character for these situations.)

I've e-mailed the priest to say I'm 'worried' about access. I could have been stronger, but I'm British and passive-aggressive. (Wish I'd inherited more Irish character for these situations.)

Oh no, we Irish wouldn't do anything about it except be incredibly polite to all the dickweeds then complain loudly and bitterly with many swear words in the pub later. We like to complain, but not in a way that actually gets anything done.

Incidentally, I've just about settled into the job/life etc. here, so if you're free ever for a pint or a cuppa...

Jars ~ Heh. Is probably true. The Irish rant so much more effectively, though. Or, at least, more loudly.

And pint/cuppa would be fab! Are you London-based?

Dear self,

Please try to remember for next time that the combination of off-white pants with rain is problematical. However, cheers for the not freaking out about it today.

Love,
Me

Raining there too, Shir? Huh. (I have soaked trousers. I need to remember to wear the shorter ones when I'm walking. Wheelchair-length trousers + the walk from the car to the library + torrential rain = wet.)

Yeah! Rain! First real rains of the year! Whoooooo!

And pint/cuppa would be fab! Are you London-based?

Yup! Working nearish to Old Street station and living in the ghettoLeyton.

And it's clearing up now where I am least! Twas pissing down all morning though.

My least favorite? "oh, someone can probably help you," And then all the Someones develop old football injuries(Not that I'm blaming them...most of them don't know they're on the spot, anyway.) But still.

Working nearish to Old Street station

I'm in Camden. Drink should be possible.

My least favorite? "oh, someone can probably help you," And then all the Someones develop old football injuries

Best response to that one: "You are not lifting me up those steps. My joints dislocate. Also, you'll only have to sue me when you end up in, well, a wheelchair."

Drink should be possible.

Woohoo!

I'm free... basically all the time. Also I work flexi time, so even working hours are okay for me. And so I don't work myself into the dreadful category of unthinking venue-pickers, it's entirely up to you where and when. My profile addy is good. Also I haven't been to Camden yet! Excited.