This month has appeared to be more productive than I originally thought. In fact, I’ve been so busy, I had to publish this summary a week later than planned.
Freelance Work
These past few weeks, I’ve been deep down in various freelance jobs for Disability Horizons and AccessAble:
- I wrote an article at Disability Horizons promoting Nimbus Disability’s Access Card scheme.
- I created a video and blog review of the AccessAble app in Basingstoke.
- I’ve begun prepping for interviews with famous disabled people for Disability Horizons.
- I attended the Team BRIT’s racing academy launch as Disability Horizons’ reporter. Read my full article and watch my video coverage.
- I’ve registered to attend the Attitude is Everything awards event as reporter for Disability Horizons.
- I’ve registered to attend Naidex at the end of March.
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Books
Continuing my challenge to read more classic literature, this month I read Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. I was inspired to read this book from the episode of the 90s sitcom Friends, where Rachel encourages Joey to read it. It was a beautiful, heartwarming story filled with love, kindness and emotion. It was interesting to learn how young women lived and grew up in the 1800s.
Bohemian Rhapsody – sing-along screening
Three weeks ago, I went to a sing-along screening of the award winning biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody at the Farnham Maltings, Surrey. I did see the film for the first time back in November but when I saw this event advertised on social media, I immediately decided I wanted to go. I was disappointed we were unable to sing along the first time so to have the opportunity to sing along this time was great. It was the closest thing I was going to get to see Queen play live with Freddie Mercury. Unfortunately not as many people as I thought did join in with the singalong. I think I ended up being the loudest of them all.
Donations
This month, Rock For Disability received its largest donation to date. Tony Georgiev from Good Vibe donated £100 following my review of their Alexa game skill “Word Chain” A big thank you again for the generous donation!
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Blog post roundup
In case you missed any of my blog posts this month, here is a roundup of them:
1. Music Review:Numb Killer by Tarah Who?
2. 5 recommended game skills on Amazon Alexa – UPDATED!
3. Music Interview: Life Underfoot
4. How my disability created friendships
5. Music Interview: Lovesick Radio
6. New adventures at Disability Horizons
7. Music Interview: The King of Mars
8. Assistive Tech Tips: AccessAble app review
5 Favourite Blog Posts
Here are my 5 favourite blog posts I’ve read this month:
1. When does accessible mean accessible? by CPANDM-E
2. The power of empathy by Dr Perry at Make It Ultra Psychology
3. What you see when you can’t see by The Secret Blind
4. Anger Management: A crash course by Wrae Saunders at One Blog, One Day at a Time
5. Disability is the national crisis ‘We are being culled.’ by Simon Sansome at Ability Access
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