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Sill Ill

March 8, 2012 by Mik Scarlet

What a crazy month March has turned out to be. I had planned to write my second travelogue, about a recent weekend away in Penzance, but I will save that for later. Instead I wanted to write something about why March has not been a high point of 2012 for

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Disability, enjoying life, illness, infection, medical model, sieze the day, social model

Travelogue 1 – Derby

February 21, 2012 by Mik Scarlet

At the start of 2012 I promised myself that I would try to see more of the great country I live in. It seems that February really kicked started this goal, with a series of trips all over the UK in my diary. The first was a visit to Derby

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: cathedral quarter, Derby, holiday, shopping, tourism, wheelchair

London Edge – Feb 2012

February 9, 2012 by Mik Scarlet

Earlier this week I made my way to this season’s London Edge trade expo, at Olympia in London. I reviewed a previous event for Sinzine and many of the companies that caught my eye that visit were here again. None of them let me down, although Miss Katie was obvious

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Edge, fashion, Goth., London, punk, sine zine, sinzine, style

Thank Heavens for Hair Dye!

February 7, 2012 by Mik Scarlet

This weekend I finally cracked and reached for the hair dye. Late last year I had a meeting with a BBC exec who advised me that I should update my look, and cut out the peroxide hair. The bleached Billy Idol thing dated me and might put producers off asking

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: colour, disability now, dye, hair, Live Hair Colour, presenter, radio, Red Passion, TV

Dear Diary….

February 5, 2012 by Mik Scarlet

To everyone that reads my blog, I have decided to change what I use it for. You see I have lust landed a post of columnist for the new magazine PosAbility and kind of want to keep a lot of the stuff I would have once blogged about for publication.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Camden, cancer, Disability, grave, health, michael mcgrath, neuroblastoma, Society

You Go Girl!

January 20, 2012 by Mik Scarlet

I just had to say that anyone who missed Francesca Martinez appearance on the BBC’s This Week must go to and check it out. She was on fire and even in the face of two people who obviously know very little about the experience of disabled people, she stood her

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Disability, Francesca Martinez, spending cuts, This Week

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