There is hope...

Don’t cross the cross a 4-way traffic-junction, diagonally (WITH SCHOOL CHILDREN)!

This is brought to my attention regularly, as I return home to my flat, just after ‘end-of-school’ time. 

I shout in anger and dismay, on this blog, at parents who cross diagonally, the busy junction between Maple Rd,  and Brighton Rd, YES, HERE IN SURBITON! 

Emoji News

I am quite unsure how i feel about these new Emojis. Do we need them? Are we just allowing for further segregation from ‘the norm’? I am a wheelchair user, do I not count as a regular human being?

Ok, Ok, I may be too sensitive. Everyone is different. OK, no-one has a cartoon, yellow face... 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-48989950

Let fate decide. Don’t fight against it, you will only become unhappy. It may be fate that you fight, twisting it to ‘suit your desire’, just learn to accept your failure. You will learn to find positives. Do not become obsessed with desires, or what you want. Recognise the positives that you experience, as ‘desires’. Missions towards your own desires, battling against fate, will result in failure. Failure can be problematic. Persistent failure is bad.

when you thought British politics couldn't get any worse...

Jeremy Hunt v Boris Johnson
:(

The battle between these two ‘beings’, to be our PM. I think that fingers can be pointed back at ’the NF’ who not only won the Brexit referendum through lies, but he then went to torture the USA, by promoting Trump’s election. Only now are populations beginning to recognise the problems. 

Donald Trump has so many enemies, his election is being seen, correctly, as a HUGE ERROR.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q2mrQ1Z73kM

 















There is hope...

... everything equals!

A female politician in the US, who stands correctly, opposing such brutal policies in the US. 

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez - Ocasio2018.com

@AOC

As her worldwide popularity and stature increases (it will), similar, fresh, modern characters will appear worldwide. Progressive, positivity will win!

save energy, close applications!

save energy, close applications!

(The cumulative scale of energy ‘lost’, by everyone, will be shocking)!

Why have

These applications

Open?

Save power, close unused applications!

Zane Low holds a brilliant interview with Thom Yorke regarding his recent solo album ‘Anima’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBuj29gFvsM

Progressive and Positive, thank you Thom.

Noel Gallagher describes to Zane Low his relationships with various other celebrities 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI1iwP1jDmI

I treated myself to a new espresso cup...

no excuse

Text based on blog introduction

• Welcome to my blog. I post on this, roughly once a week (it does vary, as currently, I post less regular than before). I sustained a 'Traumatic Acquired Brain Injury', and a six month coma from a 'road traffic accident' whilst cycling, in October 2006. 
• I spent the following 4 years (22-26yrs old), in a combination of hospitals and rehabilitation homes. Now, I have been living independently in Surbiton, England since October 2010. This blog begun life in December 2010, as i realised that there are many people worldwide that i want to share experiences with. I know that, as a wheelchair user, I am obviously not as mobile as i wish, so, use the internet to connect to you. 
• I recently fractured my left hip, then dislocated the surgical repair, mainly caused by the spasticity of leg muscles (spasticity caused by the brain injury). 
• I sit and wonder. I enjoy letting my thoughts represent through type. I type honestly. As numerous readers, as well as email recipients, will understand, I find typing to be very therapeutic. Thank you :)

Without a doubt, part of me was lost in my original accident. Lost, but I have also twisted, changed, and strengthened myself in other ways.

I have always been a bloody-minded and self-assured individual (often seen positively as ‘determined’, but surely negatively too). 

The unfortunate reality is that, as well as potential ‘positives’, there are always very dangerous ‘negatives’. I regularly battle primarily, against these negatives, however they always exist.

What am I doing here?...

... I feel like it is part of my duty to visually communicate, how I can, the stark and terrifying messages that humanity needs to face and react to. 

• We need to start saving the world NOW!! Humanity lives. As it lives, it must realise that it has both luxuries and necessities. 
• Humanity has to recognise that the two are almost mutually exclusive. Is something a ‘Luxury’ or a ‘Necessity’? 
• We rarely have much more of one, without much less of the other. Both are important, but only necessities are necessary!
• There are opposites to everything.

Centres of consumption

Look at your supermarket shopping basket. 

What have YOU chosen to take from the world?

Everything is YOUR CHOICE. 

When you have so much choice, there is absolutely no excuse.

Clapham Junction train station, 

Tuesday, I was at Britain’s busiest railway station.

It shocks me how few people read signs. Too many passengers at stations are so lazy, they ask staff (who may be too busy). They get stressed, then unhappy. 

‘Does this train stop at ‘x’?’

Just look at THE F*****G sign!

Stable, a spherical, ball-like object without any external forces applied on it, is relatively still in space. 

The Earth spins concentrically, but maintains its relative place in the universe. 

Why are we risking a mess of this balance? 

An imbalance in our climate will destroy our safety!

Scale of effect/damage could increase at an exponential rate, from which we cannot escape.

Why do we allow this concept’s possibility?

Please do your bit for humanity.

(Sorry Donald)

Le Tour de France

Ok, I have remained unusually quiet recently, regarding Professional Cycling, following Chris Froome’s horrific training crash. ‘La Grande Boucle’ starts tomorrow, without the British favourite.  The race is taking a twisted route through France, compared to a usual clockwise or anti-clockwise loop around. The map below shows how the route is starting in Belgium, and racing through the Alsace region, before sweeping across the centre, to tackle the Pyrenees, leaving Alpine stages very late. Instead of a regular Time-Trial on the penultimate day, this year’s race is wrapped up by a difficult Alpine stage up to Val Thorens (stage 20, of 21).

Le Tour

https://www.letour.fr/en

Claustrophobic doom! 

+ HEAT

I felt an unnerving panic, that was totally stupid and undeserving, on this past Saturday. I am not continuing to explain in great detail, but basically I could not leave my flat temporarily, on a hot summers day. Plus, therefore my current favourite coffee shop, would have to be missed. 

WHATTTT!!?… (panic stations)! 

Hmmm, the heat must’ve got to me!

Finally Britain could feel some summer heat in this past week. British people should never complain about the weather. We are a tiny island in the middle of a temperate climate. Other locations are not so lucky. The example of shock weather, given below, really should provide the rest of the entire world, AN ALARM! We are playing with the limits of the global climate. It can easily show us examples of it’s power.

THIS IS NOT A WAR WE CAN WIN! (Sorry Donald) 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-48821306

‘Are you ok navigating backwards?’

‘I’m a pro’

The question and the answer I gave whilst I carefully reversed my wheelchair out of a tiny London coffee shop (http://independentcoffeeshops.blogspot.com/p/new-row-espresso-room.html).

After two months off (in hospital, injured), I became slightly apprehensive of my wheelchair control, but now I breathe a sigh of relief that ‘I’m a pro, I do it for a living!’

YOU SHOULD NOT PUT SUGAR OR SWEETENER IN YOUR COFFEE!!!

Design for dis-assembly 

I am lucky to have had my education, but now my current awareness/knowledge can hurt me. As Industrial Design students, we were always encouraged to consider the product’s ‘end-of-life’. We did (maybe not as much as one must, but we did).

Whenever I shop now, I ALWAYS ponder what I will do with the waste that it creates. There is ALWAYS waste. 

Products are best when the user can break to be recycled…

If not directly re-used, then, product parts must fall easily into material groups. Materials can be broken down and re-used for alternative app

Two regular, everyday products that always alarm me now…

Blood test results back on eve-of-Grand Depart!

I must head to the doctors after I have finished typing this. I will get my blood test results back. 

It amuses me that I am doing this on the eve of the Tour de France, but it is a total coincidence (honest)! I am clean. My blood was tested following a short time on an unusual combination of drugs, preceding and following hip surgeries.