Not impressed, Mr Obama. Not impressed at all. Hopefully the YouTube video below will stay live for you all to see this, but the gist of it goes that Jay Leno is asking Barack Obama if he has kept the bowling alley in the White House. Obama replies that yes, he has kept it, and that he even shot a “126″ the other day. Leno scoffs, as if to imply the score is a little pathetic, and Obama jokes that

Here’s an interesting conundrum that a lot of able-bodied people struggle with. How “helpful” should one be towards a disabled person, without appearing to be condescending, or patronising? Every now and then you might see a wheelchair user struggling up a curb or a step. Do you offer to help, and risk offending him/her, or do you leave them be, confident that they know what they’re doing? It’s a tricky situation, for sure. But how about a blind person? A

Cassi sent me this sweet little poem from the perspective of someone who is deafblind, and I thought I’d post it up here Cheers Cass! TALKING HANDS Graceful movements expressions are relayed many languages are involved Hand on hand, block letter, braille sign Deaf, Deafblind and Hearing alike Mothers, Fathers, Interpreters Sign Language, Talking Hands

Morning folks! As you can tell, my blogging activity has been a wee bit sporadic lately, thanks to Uni going back and me galavanting around this beautiful country of ours. So it is at this time that I ask – would you like to contribute to walkingisoverrated.com? It could be anything – a review, opinion piece, video blog, poem?! Whatever floats your boat. So please get in touch!

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Firstly, apologies for the tone of this but I’m annoyed. Trust vernacular to bring me back from blogging oblivion. Now, call me what you like, but when I last checked, the dictionary definition for the word ‘invalid’ read something like this: invalid 2 |inˈvalid| |1nˈvøləd| |ɪnˈvalɪd| adjective not valid, in particular • (esp. of an official document or procedure) not legally recognized and therefore void because contravening a regulation or law : the vote was declared invalid due to a