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The Pollyanna Diaries: Redhall Walled Garden, Edinburgh
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Sunday, 7 June 2015. Redhall Walled Garden, Edinburgh. A couple of weeks ago, friends in Edinburgh asked would we like to come along on a visit to Redhall Walled Garden. In the western suburbs of Edinburgh, as they were having an open day. The small boy was at first a bit reluctant but changed his mind and I am so glad he did. The garden is run by the Scottish Association for Mental Health ( SAMH. The garden itself was originally the walled garden for the nearby Redhall House. As ever I took far too few ...
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The Pollyanna Diaries: September 2012
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Friday, 21 September 2012. Sometimes, this disability thing feels expensive. This post is brought to you, mostly, by the ominous squeak coming from one of my crutches. I've blogged before about my crutches. They seem to have another brand for sale now (on the left there), which I have to say look great but are expensive (£145 EACH. A bit perplexed by the picture of one on a bike. Bike-riding crutches user seems a niche market! So, I think I'll give these OPO ones. Links to this post. I have fibromyalgia ...
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The Pollyanna Diaries: July 2014
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Sunday, 20 July 2014. Dusting this off as I have something to say again. Lots was obviously done in the lead up to the Olympics, two years ago, to make London more accessible and lifts (elevators, if you are American) have been put into the underground platforms at most of the mainline stations and some others. Central London is still a bit of a blackspot, due to the age of the network. I have some sympathy with Transport for London. Has a great post. We were hoping to also see the Natural History Museum.
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The Pollyanna Diaries: May 2015
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Tuesday, 5 May 2015. Zen and the art of wheelchair maintenance. The basic rule is to take the wheels off, squirt everything that should move with WD40, tighten everything that shouldn't move but is. I also took the wheels off, pumped them up to their full 110psi (that raised eyebrows when I bought the pump in the bicycle sectionof Decathlon) and squirted a bit of WD40 on the axels. Fully re-assembled, I put the chair back in my car. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). We've been in Scotland s...
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The Pollyanna Diaries
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Tuesday, 21 April 2015. This cat is heavier than my wheelchair. New comments are not allowed. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'm the mother of a 10 year old not-so-small Scottish boy, a Policy Officer and recently finished a MA in Social Sciences with the Open University. I live in a small town west of Edinburgh with my son (50% of the time) and my 2 cats. Any thoughts, views and opinions expressed in posts to this blog are entirely my own. So are any spelling or grammatical mistakes. Please...Karen...
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The Pollyanna Diaries: January 2013
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Tuesday, 8 January 2013. London - part 1 - Legoland. This post got stuck in draft, so I am posting it now - slightly too late! I suspect part 2 won't ever get written! Our first stop was Legoland. I'd been once before - in 1991 and in Denmark - and the rest were newbies. All the kids were big Lego fans though! What the staff were happy with, however, was for the rest of the group to queue and for me to join them at the front. It meant I still waited just as long, but could sit down while doing so. I'm th...
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The Pollyanna Diaries: February 2015
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Saturday, 28 February 2015. This just impresses me. It took me too long to figure this out. At the moment I need to take the wheels off the chair when putting it in the car. This means a bit of juggling (standing with my weight mostly on one foot, of course) to take the wheels off. Once I made this discovery, though, it got a lot easier. The chair will balance on the front footplate, not just with the wheels off, as shown, but with either or both wheels on. Someone thought about that. Links to this post.
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The Pollyanna Diaries: Accessible France
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Sunday, 28 June 2015. We're on our way to France for our summer holidays, which are usual brings the challenge of figuring out which places are accessible and which aren't. I found very little in English, but I have just discovered J'accede. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'm the mother of a 10 year old not-so-small Scottish boy, a Policy Officer and recently finished a MA in Social Sciences with the Open University. I live in a small town west of Edinburgh with my son (50% of the time) and my 2 cats.
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The Pollyanna Diaries: June 2015
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Sunday, 28 June 2015. We're on our way to France for our summer holidays, which are usual brings the challenge of figuring out which places are accessible and which aren't. I found very little in English, but I have just discovered J'accede. Links to this post. Sunday, 7 June 2015. Redhall Walled Garden, Edinburgh. A couple of weeks ago, friends in Edinburgh asked would we like to come along on a visit to Redhall Walled Garden. The garden is run by the Scottish Association for Mental Health ( SAMH. As a ...
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The Pollyanna Diaries: Scottish Sea Life Centre - Oban
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Wednesday, 29 April 2015. Scottish Sea Life Centre - Oban. I'm still playing catch-up on our trip away during the school holidays, so here's a belated post about another one of our outings. On our second day at Ballachulish we decided to try and dodge the rain showers and visit the Scottish Sea Life Centre. At Oban. It was featured in Rough Guide to Accessible Travel in Britain. As accessible so I thought it would be fine - and have plenty of shelter if it did rain. All in all we had a good day and I man...
