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I recognise my error. I had told a new friend the address to this blog (following a brief description). However, that was all exchanged, explaining that my email address is best way to contact, it is ‘on my blog’...
... I return home to check, and to my despair, I have to search hard for this!
It is on the side-bar, but I am well aware that many of you may view this blog on a mobile phone. The sidebar is not displayed on a mobile phone.
This alarms me. I instruct all mobile phone viewers to
scroll down, and click-on ‘view as web version’.
I have also supplied my email address at the bottom of the title bar.
Turn the tap off!
Above is a photo of the tap that inspired this note! It seems crazy I know, but I was so furious entering this ‘Wheelchair Accessible toilet’, finding this!… A train station’s toilet, in perfect condition, but as the tap is slightly stiff, it seems that NO-ONE CARES to turn it off! It is very regularly, too regularly, left running.
Things like this irritate me. OK, there is the sustainability issue of water wastage, but I find my issue has little to do with this. It is a tap that is intended to be turned on for use only. WHEN YOU HAVE STOPPED USING IT, TURN IT OFF! My same mentality troubles me, when I come across an empty room with a light turned on. I graduated in Industrial Design. Everything is designed with a purpose. To use something for oneself, but then to leave it as potentially problematic for others, I find this so offensive!
Stress!
TURN IT OFF!
If no one is using, why is something being used?…
No evening coffee.
OK, I have successfully restricted myself to only three shots of coffee per day, since the last post (two weeks ago). Yet again, I am using this blog as a referee (I ALWAYS HAVE TO TELL THE TRUTH)! I will allow an increase of up to four shots of coffee per day, but I will try to keep this down to three drinks!
Anyway, sorry, I’m sure you really don’t care, but I have no other way of enforcing this!
‘Its great that you can get around!’
With complete and utter sincerity, this woman gave me a big smile, with these words…
… I smiled back
But oh mannnn! Inside, I could feel my chest convulsing. I wanted to explode in rage, but I smiled!
I immediately felt like smiling back and just saying...
‘Yes, and it’s great they’ve let you out for the day!’, in response!
It makes me so sad that, just because I need a wheelchair, she assumes that I stay at home, indoors, without a life!
Don’t get me wrong, in no-way am I living a fully-able life across the other side of the world, but dis-abilities vary.
Everyone is dis-abled. Everyone is living with some-sort of restriction (pre-Co-vid or not) from something, everyone has an inability to go somewhere or do something. Disabilities ALWAYS VARY. Everyone is unique.
I was recently asked in Italian, by a friend
Why are you a Fiorentina fan?
Perche sei uno tifosi di Fiorentina?
I had to think about my answer, so only English, I’m afraid!
I am a lifelong Arsenal fan, and they will always be my number one team. Back when I was a child/teenager, I fell for Juventus, regularly watching James Richardson present ‘Gazzetta Football Italia’ on Channel 4. A fan of many Italian cyclists. A design student, whose favourite food was pasta-of-all-sorts. I could tell that one-day...
2004, I was approaching my final year as a Design Student at Loughborough University. I was away from home in London, and I had found a 2D Design course in Florence, on the Internet...
My mind was thinking far ahead. I would live Florence, cycling in Tuscany, studying Graphic Design, and fall in love with an Italian supermodel! But hold on, I will have to become a fan of Fiorentina.
Hehehe, my house-mates will remember our obsession with ‘Pro-Evo Soccer’ on the Playstation2! Fabrizio Miccoli was my immense weapon!
Martin Jorgensen and Giorgio Chiellini, were both key figures as I began to fall for the team.
2005, I visited Florence with my family, whilst we stayed on an incredible Tuscan holiday. Whilst visiting Pisa, I clearly remember the famous Leaning Tower surrounded by tourists buying little models of the attraction, taking photographs with cameras (years before the iPhone phenomena). I realised that I needed to be different. I bought a fan-shirt of Fiorentina. Violet with Toyota written across the front, but ‘Toni’, on the back!
Luca Toni was a legendary player!
2006
I started on a Graphic Design course which fitted in whilst I worked part-time for the ‘WestFocus Sustainability in Design’ team at Kingston University. Italy were about to win the World Cup, but Calcio was suffering from the Calciopoli scandal. It was time to switch allegiance away from Juventus, and I knew that Fiorentina were my Italian team. I cycled in the Alps, watching the Tour de France. My girlfriend was incredibly important to me, but I could tell that my life was going elsewhere! July, Tour de France. August, my birthday and work took centre-stage. September, I had completed all coursework on my Graphic-Design course. October first weekend, a long cyclo-sportif with club-mates north of Paris. Second weekend, I go to Birmingham, to see my girlfriend (mutually we decide that it’s becoming too hard/distant), but we love each other. Then Friday 13th, followed by a fateful Saturday October 14th 2006…
I wake up six months later...
Earlier this month, 25 years ago…
One of THE GREATEST…
I was just 11, but I knew this was SPECIAL.
Twenty five years, gulp!
I finish this week's post with words from such a wise man, Sir David Attenborough.
It is such an important way of thinking, I urge you all to consider these words deeply...
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