Back to Baking Blind Basics – 10.30am Monday 13th March By Penny Melville-Brown The next free online cooking demo is dedicated to my favourite home-made rough puff pastry. Ideal for both sweet and savoury pies, …
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KEEPING ACTIVE WITH YOUR LUNG CONDITION
If you have a lung condition, being active can help to improve your quality of life and help you manage your condition. There are many different ways to be active. You can increase everyday activities …
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DEALING WITH STRESS – FROM OUR NEW BLOGGER, DONNA GILES When I, yet again, found myself in subventricular tachycardia that appeared to relate very directly to the stress I was under at the time, I …
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Today we’re launching a brand-new report, Zoning in on Clean Air, revealing that an estimated 24 million people across the UK are still breathing in air that exceeds legal limits of air pollution. …
Continue readingRESPITE CARE FOR UNPAID CARERS – PETITION
Would you please consider signing our PETITION calling for a £25m annual fund to provide extra ‘respite breaks’ for unpaid carers? THE PETITION “Create a £25million annual fund to pay for respite breaks for …
Continue readingINTRODUCING OUR NEW BLOGGER – DONNA GILES
Hi, I’m Donna, I am a mother, a wife, a daughter/daughter-in-law and a sister/sister-in-law. I also like to think I am a campaigner & fundraiser. I was born with a complex congenital cardiac condition – …
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From ‘Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust’ Hannah on finding love after cervical cancer I was diagnosed with 1b1 cervical cancer the day before my 31st birthday. At the time I was single and didn’t have any …
Continue readingA SURVEY FROM NATIONAL HIGHWAYS CONCERNING DISABLED MOTORISTS
National Highways has launched a survey to ask disabled motorists how their services can be improved, and the motorways made more accessible. The survey will take around 10 minutes to complete and as a thank …
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From ‘Parkinson’s UK’ Are you one of the 8,000 people with Parkinson’s who currently pay for their prescriptions in England? If so, can you help us by sharing your thoughts on the charge? We’re …
Continue readingTHERE SHE GOES ….
A Poem by Donna Giles She moves ahead, meandering along the path. I see her head above the headrest. Woolly hat moving, no veering off the track. I watch the big wheels that are propelling …
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