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TV subtitles
On my way to the airport recently, I was sitting in a hostel cafe watching the early television news and weather with the sound turned off. The program was subtitled for deaf veiwers. Now I have read a...
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Letterboxes
In the world of design it often seems to be the, apparently simple, everyday objects that fare the worst. Umbrellas, for example. Or letterboxes. Unless you have spent hours going door to door...
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How to make access difficult and lose customers
My son flies from the Channel Islands to Gatwick on a regular basis using special assistance. He has flown with Flybe many times. Arranging special assistance is easy. I can ring up and tell them which...
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18 things I wish I knew when I was 18
Whatever difficult things you had to put up with as a child, you have more options now. You have choices about your attitude to things and can change things around you to be how you want them. It gets...
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14 reasons fat people don’t exercise
Self hatred. If the whole world hates you for being fat, and lets you know about it regularly, it’s hard not to hate yourself. If you hate yourself you feel bad. If you feel bad you may comfort eat....
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How to react (and how not to) when someone has a seizure!
My adult son has epilepsy which is not currently controlled by drugs. At the moment I travel with him a lot for the Neuro-feedback training he is having. Because of this I have plenty of opportunity to...
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On being a fat fitness instructor
Let’s get two things straight up front. I’m fit. Fitter than most people and fitter than a good few other instructors I’ve met. And I’m fat. Currently a size 16, at 5’3” I carry more than a few kilos...
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A challenging festival trading weekend!
Festival trading is not the easy life that many people imagine, and there are times when so many things go wrong it’s a miracle that any trading happens at all! This week I had only an hour and a half...
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Does your fitness facility really welcome fat people?
In the fitness world (and in much popular media) there is a lot of talk about the ‘problem’ of obesity and about how fat people should exercise more. But does your facility really welcome fat people?...
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