That moment when the hidden joke in a book you thought you knew well leaps out and clubs you in the head. Or in this case a series. Lois McMaster Bujold has always said the Barrayaran Vor in the Miles Vorkosigan books started out as tax collectors, jumped up government thugs, before becoming nobility. One of the characters in my novel-in-progress ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to sort out the slightly undersized Quickie GPV I ended up getting for free after last year's eBay wheelchair fiasco (first they ruled the other person was right and paid them, then revised that to me being right and refunded me). It's not so small as to be unusable, just a touch narrow if you're wearing any sort of jacket. It ( Read more... )

It seems bizarre to talk about enjoying a funeral, particularly when it's for your best friend's 27yo son, but that's what happened.
Chris died a month ago, a little short of a year on from a terminal brain cancer diagnosis, but the funeral was delayed until Tuesday this week, apparently due to availability issues at the crematorium. There was a ( Read more... )

No particular problems, in fact there are a few posts either half-written, or half-planned, but I got back from Durham only to go straight into what's usually my most energy-depleting, if fun, weekend of the year, which left me with not a lot of spoons and doing my daysleeper routine. I'm hopeful I'm getting things back under control, though it may ( Read more... )

Still up in the North East, enjoying family, back on line in a few days. Highlight of the trip so far, not quite making it into the Cauldron's Snout - I'll explain that next week, it's already largely written up ;)

Mostly on Dreamwidth nowadays. You can reply on the DW post at http://davidgillon.dreamwidth.org/125708.html using OpenID. LJ ( Read more... )

It's 5:30AM and I'm eating pizza and drinking G&T, which means my schedule is really shot again.

I'm heading up to Durham on Saturday for a fortnight, so expect postings to range from occasional to non-existent. I was out running a few pre-trip errands earlier and apparently a little bit of exercise, a little bit of sun and a beer with tea on the ( Read more... )

I haven't been directly active on Livejournal for a good while (I abandoned LJ for blogger/blogspot several years before starting my DW account), but as of a while ago it is set up to echo my posts here. Given the new LJ ToS, I've finally gotten around to importing my old, pre-DW, LJ postings. That seems to be in progress right now. I haven't ( Read more... )

Spring weather continues; there's even a tiny amount of cherry blossom on my cherry tree - it blossomed the year I planted it, but not for the last couple. Looks like it is finally getting established. Also snowdrops growing in the middle of my lawn thanks to the blasted squirrels transplanting them. I managed to eat out on the patio for the first ( Read more... )

So if you're wearing an unfastened denim jacket, turns out the bottom button is at just the right height, and just the right size, to get caught between your wheel and your pushrim, at which point you aren't going anywhere until you've managed to jiggle it loose....

And of course it happened while I was at a till. So I'd no sooner moved new ( Read more... )

The first thing I saw in one of my hypermobility newsgroups post flipping the chair was someone saying she's training as an OT and needs to create some sort of aid for one of her courses.
So I suggested an airbag for wheelchairs.

(Or I could just remember to put the anti-tips out)

Mostly on Dreamwidth nowadays. You can reply on the DW post at http ( Read more... )