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My 6 month sabbatical

If you could take 6 months off work (or however it is you spend your life) where would you go?

1st Month – Melbourne, Victoria, Australia I would stay at The Grand Mercure in the centre of town. Their beds have the best doonas and amongst the best wheelchair accessible bathrooms. I’d spend my time just wandering around, going to gigs, pubs and talking to interesting strangers. Oh, and having manicures and pedicures.

2nd Month – Devon, England. My mum is from Devon. I’d like to see if the pictures that I have painted in my head from all of her stories are anything like the real Devon. I also want to try a real Cornish Pastie.

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Writer’s block

It’s the thing that I find just as, if not more, annoying than not being able to climb stairs or jump up and down on my bed like a five year old. It is writer’s block and it should have its own disability postcode.

Some days I can write about anything and give it wit, charm, even charisma, but this week my creativity has bailed on me. My words have found another place to live. It may not sound like a big deal, but trust me it is. I’ve been trying to think of something to write for three days now. I’ve written and deleted so many paragraphs that the ‘backspace’ key is sore and still nothing!

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Welcome to Freefall

This blog is a writers’ dream … no seriously, it is. I can blog every week. It is also my chance to show, to really show, that people with disabilities are not only people, but people with interests and concerns that extend way beyond and outside of the realms of their disabilities.

We do, in fact, have lives. We have jobs, families, music addictions, relationships, crazy pets and even the occasional opinion on the happenings of the world. Some of us have tattoos as well and sometimes we have no idea what we are doing and where we are going to end up. Sound familiar?

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