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by Mik Scarlet
I am currently at the start of a marathon encoding session, with a pile of old VHS tapes filled with some of the programs I recorded for TV. I thought I’d lost them, but my Mum found them all in the loft of our family home. It’s weird experience watching
Read More about The Upload begins….by Mik Scarlet
I read the article “Sex: some facts of life” by Kirsty Liddiard in the April issue of Disability Now with great interest. I once trained to go into social work, with the aim of working with newly disabled people. I also recently decided to change my studies from a Psychology
Read More about Sex: Are We Really So Different?by Mik Scarlet
Recently I was challenged by someone claiming “You’re Mik Scarlet!”. They held their mobile phone up and showed me a photograph of little old me that was taken as part of the Re-Framing Disability exhibition. Now it’s not my favourite photo, but before I had the chance to say anything
Read More about Chairman Scarlet Speaks…by Mik Scarlet
Back in 2003 I had a series of surgeries to repair my damaged spine, which had been broken for a second time after a car accident four years earlier. As an unforeseen side effect of this surgery, where I had one of vertebrae replaced with a titanium ring and my
Read More about "Spinal Injury – The Cure That Wasn’t A Cure" or "Dude, Where’s My Feet Gone?"by Mik Scarlet
I have just got back from attending the fantastic Graeae musical Reasons To Be Cheerful, and had a great night. It’s a great show and I can’t recommend it too highly. In fact I wish I could be in it, although trying to remember all of Ian Dury’s lyrics might
Read More about Reasons to get yourself to this show!by Mik Scarlet
As promised, here is piece about my recent trip to Penzance down in Cornwall. You would never believe it from the photos, but Diane and I made our most recent visit in February. During the long drive, and at over five hours it can be a bit of an endurance
Read More about Travelogue 2 – Penzance, Cornwall