A Seminar and friends who always seem to need my help!
hi everybody, hope all is well with you lot, and sorry I haven't written here for a few days. It's the same thing, that I have been busy! Which seems to happen all the time doesn't it with me, but I always make time to chat to you lot and write on the Ouch messageboards.
This week I have been busy with two things, One being a seminar on Tuesday and chatiing to someone new that I made friends with, and then going out for a socialable chat with my college mate Lee. who has joined the boards like us so you may just spot him on there!
The seminar was great and was held in the building of Scope in London. The seminar was held by the Transition Information network for which I am a member of.
We had a great day and did workshops on housing, direct payments, and the Government's ideas for the Green paper they're bringing out for people with learning difficulties and the problems they need to address like ideas on how to change boroughs so they can provide more leisure facilities for young people with learning difficulties to do.
I also picked up freebies of leaflets and a great CD Rom which tells about Scope's Time to get Equal campaign, and tells of what people can do to sign the pledge and I think that you lot should sign it as it's a great campaign to rise awareness of disabled people.
Scope's website if you're interested in signing the pledge is at
http://www.scope.org.ukIt also gives you information about the great work that they do, But while I was at the charity I met Margie Woodward who does a lot of good work for the charity and was featured talking about the Spazz wheelchair with my hero on Radio 4's You and Yours programme and it was nice to bump into her when I was in the lift and put a name to her face!
Secondly it was nice to meet Chris Mac and get emails from him as I enjoy talking to him and others on the messageboard and Chris Mac is a great person.
I have also been helping out another mate as I said earlier, my mate Lee. Lee's nice as well and I have helped him out and still do, and it's nice to talk to him and to listen to his problems. I suppose you must do that when your mates are with you and you listen to their problems and even help them out.
It's special too because in Lee I have made him come out of a shell that he seems to be in and even made him better in himself when I gave him advice.
I don't know why but men always ask me for my advice and I seem to have lots of male friends than females, of course I have female friends like you female bloggers but I always get males that want to be a mate to me and get advice and tell me their problems.
I always were a fairy godmother to most males in my old college, maybe it's time to reprise that role again!
