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Posted on July 16, 2021 Leave a Comment
Hello! I’ve been updating this blog, on and off, since November 2010 – over a decade! – but it’s time for something new. I’m launching a newsletter! It’s called The View From Down Here and you can find it over on Substack. There’s a free and a paid version (just £5 a month) so I […]
Posted on March 8, 2021 Leave a Comment
A month ago this Wednesday, I was turned down from a dating agency for being too disabled. I have taken to referring to what followed – a viral Twitter thread, a Radio 4 interview, a discussion on the Last Leg – as A Series of Unexpected Events. I capitalise this phrase in my own mind […]
Posted on July 28, 2020 Leave a Comment
July 2020 is the first ever Disability Pride Month – timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act. When I saw the first few Disability Pride tweets pop up I was surprised – we very rarely get this kind of acknowledgement of the disability movement – and a little […]
Posted on July 20, 2020 Leave a Comment
How is everyone? It’s been a bit of a time hasn’t it? I keep feeling like someone took the snow globe of my life and gave it a good shake. Things have settled now but nothing is quite how it was before. Confession time, though: I haven’t really minded lockdown. Of course I’m immensely privileged […]
Posted on May 10, 2020 Leave a Comment
It started with Heartburn. The novel, you understand, by Nora Ephron. It had come my way as a recommendation from a friend, as a book perfect for These Times. And it was. For three glorious days I was transported out of myself and lockdown London and into the life of Rachel (Nora) and the 1970s on […]
Posted on April 24, 2020 Leave a Comment
This week, satirical website the Onion ran this headline about the coronavirus pandemic: Man Not Sure Why He Thought Most Psychologically Taxing Situation Of His Life Would Be The Thing To Make Him Productive And we all laugh, right? Because we’ve all, at some point, declared that we’re going to learn French or get fit […]
Posted on March 22, 2020 Leave a Comment
I don’t know when I am going to see my friends again. For me, that is the worst part of this coronavirus induced isolation we all find ourselves in. I can live quite happily without the pub, the shop, the theatre. As a disabled person, I am used to interminable days spent on the sofa, […]
Posted on December 31, 2019 Leave a Comment
This year I laughed a lot. I faced my fears and made a film. I will never do it again. I got to feel a warm breeze as I watched Caribbean waves. I read good books and not enough of them. I lost and found myself in stories. This year I began learning to be […]
Posted on October 10, 2019 1 Comment
I’ve always been good at this, haven’t I? Reaching people with words on a page. And it’s always been how I work things out, and right now I really could use with working some things out. So even though this feels mad to write about, today is all about challenging the stigma around mental health. […]
Posted on February 25, 2017 Leave a Comment
At the beginning of the year I set myself a to do list. Naturally I am somewhat behind on nearly all fronts, but some progress is being made. I have indeed begun learning French and some digital stuff, mostly Photoshop. Both seem unreasonably complicated (I just don’t understand how I am supposed to remember the […]
Lucy Webster 