right, warm water and a lamp it is.  brilliant.

my doggie has Labrador in her, but she does not enjoy being near to cats at all.  My two do tolerate each other, but never get very close.  When I am in another room the two of them do sit in the kitchen, the cat on his chair and the doggie on the floor, for company.

I was thinking about the leg pillow.  I wonder if I can try one out in the shop to see if my legs fit.  I might try lying down in the aisle!!

All the very best.

space-ship-shaped Christmas light display. 

I am so grateful to you for responding to my previous correspondence.  I would indeed like to help deaf and disabled people more than I have been able to do so far.  Would you like me to come with you on your campaigns so that everyone can be made even more aware of what daily life is like for people like me.  I am educated to degree/post-graduate/etc level and would love to use the skills and knowledge that my training and experience in work have given me.

I'm afraid that I cannot drive to appointments due to  **** so could you please make a car and chauffeur available when needed.  I also have food sensitivities and cannot eat .../have to eat .... . I assume that your housekeeper will be able to supply me with a packed lunch and evening meal when we have engagements as I do have to eat at regular times otherwise I become even more ill.  

I will, as you will realise, have to take some days and half-days off to go to hospital and clinic appointments/undertake dialysis, but I am sure that you will be able to work your schedule around these important other appointments.  On the days when I am too ill to go out of the house I will tell your chauffeur when he comes to pick me up; sorry that I will be unable to give you more notice than this, but my disability/chronic disorder is like that, totally unpredictable. Still, I expect that you and your contacts can be flexible enough to re-schedule these meetings at times when I may be available - else how can I help everyone to really know what disability is all about.

I'm really looking forward to working with you in your campaigns to increase awareness and improve communication between disabled people and AB's.  (Oh, bye the way, incase you do not know, AB's are the 'able-bodied'.  Disabled people call them that because they are all the same - they can move around when they want to; it is just a friendly, pet term.)

All the very best.  I will phone you in a few days to make arrangements bout when I can start, although not sure when I will be well enough to do this,

yours sincerely,

Dark D

They want to stop to think how possible all of this, and more, is.

I volunteer at all sort of things.  Most of them I can do them when I am well enough, whether in the day or the middle of the night.  I am a productive useful human being.  Just because I cannot run the marathon does not mean I am not contributing to Society.

Loopy is contributing to my life by posting her wisdom and knowledge on here.  She supports me and lots of other people.  She is of benefit to society, as most of us on here are.  Without people like us Society would be a poorer place, not in terms of money but in terms of colour and happiness.

Sadly some people think that the only important thing in life is lots of money.

I nearly got hold of one from someone who was moving.  But she found it needed some work on it, gave it to a friend to mend, and it got stolen.  So I have no spinner.  

I would have loved another spinner, they are just so efficient.

Have they ever looked at disabled people who have never worked?  It appears that there are many AB people who have never worked - 3 generations in some cases is the urban myth.  But if this is so, why is there an expectation that all disabled people are capable of paid work.(One Size Fits All Theory)

Can I please plug into you electricity though - b...y cold in a caravan in November.

Every night someone different has a firework party around here.  It is now over 2 weeks.  My poor doggie is just so upset, she really hates it.  I have no idea where she is at the moment - cowering somewhere around the house I expect.  Usually she just rushes into whichever room I am in loo, kitchen wherever, and snuggles up and tries to hide.  

Why are the people around here so insensitive.

Are you close enough to visit and just pop in and see if the dog is OK?

It costs a lot more for me to forget that the washing is out and it blows over in the mud and then I have to wash it all again.  I take out the washing when it is still a bit damp and hang it up inside to dry for  few days.

As for the spinner on the washing machine - I would use the higher spin speed but take the washing out immediately if you can.  That should save it getting too creased by sitting about in the damp washing machine.

But I forget them as soon as they are said and I have laughed or shouted at the radio!