I’ve blogged about this before, but I am always apprehensive when I go to the petrol station to fill up the car. On more than one occasion I have been either stopped or had an issue with pressing the pump. Thankfully it doesn’t happen so often these days, but if you are like me – …
Category: Disability
Programme Review: Channel 4 – Seven Dwarves – 20th September 11
Tonight it was Craig’s turn to have the camera turned on his story in tonight’s episode of Channel 4’s Seven Dwarves (#sevendwarves). An equally humorous and dark episode which highlights we all discriminate against something in life whether you are short, tall or fat. Craig’s depiction of this had me stitches with his rant about …
Up, Up and Away…
…and quite nearly literally. Hello lovelies, I’m back from my holidays and flew back into Blighty on the tail end of hurricane Katia. Scary. Anyone who knows me, knows that I hate wind and not just the smelly kind. The windows are rattling away in our house tonight and I’m so glad to be inside. …
Small Teen, Bigger World – Some Clarification – Please Read
There has been some wonderful comments on Hello Little Lady regarding the lovely Jasmine and Bev Burkitt because of their show, Small Teen, Bigger World airing on BBC 3 over the last few weeks. I would like to clarify that I am neither Jazz nor Bev Burkitt. I’m another lady with a different form of …
Small Teen, Bigger World Interview on This Morning
Jasmine and her mum, Bev Burkitt joined Phillip Schofield on the This Morning Show on Monday for a chat about their new documentary ‘Small Teen, Bigger World’ on that aired on BBC3 that evening. Watch the video » (opens new window to the This Morning website)
The One Thing You Learn To Do As A Person With Restricted Growth
Ask.
Do You Identify As Disabled?
I was having ‘that’ conversation at work the other day. You know the one where a person who is curious or has a particular view of you wants to validate what their attitudes towards disability/restricted growth. It usually starts with ‘I don’t mean this to sound like it does, but I just see you as …
You’re Small – Get Over It!
Hmmm! This one always manages to hit a raw nerve and lets just say that it had the desired effect by the person saying it on making me feel incredibly angry and upset. Did I take the person to task? Hell no, the people around me told me not to indulge them and to rise …
Katie Price and the Bully Boy Frankie Boyle
The ‘comedian’ Frankie Boyle’s been at it again, and I say comedian in the loosest sense of the term, because really, this guy seriously isn’t funny. Not content with picking on kids with Down Syndrome, he’s now picking on a specific disabled kid. Good on Katie Price for sticking up for her son Harvey and …
Pain Day, Make That Pain Week
Pfft! I’ve been a right grouch-bag over the last week. Why? I’m in pain. I get aches and pains on a daily basis which oddly move around my body. I think this happens when I rely on one section of my body to compensate for the pain elsewhere, but I digress. This week’s pain has …