Archive: December 2005
Aunt Aggie Ruins Christmas
From Crip Chronicles, Aunt Aggie Ruins Christmas, or Dies in the Attempt:
After it took nearly ten minutes for Aggie to walk — with human and cane assistance — from the living room to the driveway of a fairly small house, I said to Joan, “for $150 she could get a good transport wheelchair that would [...]
Closer to heaven
I was privileged to be able to spend yesterday in the Sierra Nevadas (roughly here), on a sunny, balmy 70 degree day, with four dogs, five horses, my sister and her husband and very dear friends.
(Full Post)Discrimination Down Under
Those antipodean airlines! They just keep coming up with more ways to discriminate:
Qantas to restrict disabled flyers
The Mythical Wheelchair Passenger
I wish I had the statistics to refute this sort of thing:
By the way, my own local bus route (London route 101 for those knowledgeable) was one of the first adapted, new buses and alterations at all the bus stops, all ceremonially opened by the mayor of the time. In the 10 years since this [...]
Evidence of Christmas decorating
20051220-stockings
Originally uploaded by Katja Stokley.
First try at blogging a flickr photo.
(Full Post)Christmasy
Very Christmasy around here. Youngest Son went out with his father yesterday to bag a tree; they found a very nice one. It’s half decorated. We’ve been a little confused about stockings; we used to have two fireplaces, but one is now gone and the other has no mantel. I discovered brick clips at Ace [...]
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