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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
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
Read More about Sill Illby 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.
Read More about Dear Diary….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
Read More about You Go Girl!by Mik Scarlet
Recently I have found myself torn about what to write about. Every time I felt ready to put finger to keypad, another issue caught my attention. Then I realised that they were all connected. The first big issue to drive me to my blog page was the recent changes in
Read More about Xmas Spirit?by Mik Scarlet
Now where to start? As I’ve been crazy busy recently the list of things “Grinding My Gears” is quite long. The first was C4’s Sainsbury’s Super Saturday. This music and sports show was to celebrate the launch of ticket sales for the Paralympics and was aired over a whole weekend
Read More about Ranting Round-Up No.1