Over the past few months, I’ve had the privilege of working on a website for a new and hugely exciting social change movement: Be. Accessible. I attended their fantastic launch last night, and rubbed shoulders with Government Ministers, leaders in the disability world, and plenty of attractive women. Yup, it was a pretty good night all round, really.

The greatest thing about Be. Accessible is that it really is the perfect execution of what I’d hoped to create with this site, Walking is Overrated. And I feel incredibly honoured to have been able to work with Minnie Baragwanath, Qiujing Wong and the rest of the Be. Team to make it a reality!

Anyway, if you haven’t heard of Be. Accessible, check out the website at www.beaccessible.org.nz.

I’m sure you’ll agree it’s awesome.

I, dear readers, have decided to become a teacher!

It’s all very exciting, and am currently in my third week of a Grad. Dip. Secondary Teaching at the University of Auckland.

As such, I’ve been a little bit preoccupied, and I apologise sincerely for that. But I’m about to post my thoughts on my brief foray into teaching thus far, so I hope you get something out of that and keep checking back in every now and then. I’ll still be posting!

What are you all up to for 2011? Drop me a comment and let me know!

This is the final edit of some video I took at the 2010 National Disability Conference hosted by the Health & Disability Commissioner – “Making It Easy To Speak Up”. Tell me what you think!

Hey folks,

I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be liveblogging the Health and Disability Commissioner’s “Speak Up!” Conference!

So if you’re unable to attend the hui on December 6, you can tune in right here to Walking Is Overrated and I’ll be providing live updates, commentary, photos and so much more!

So don’t forget to stop by on Monday and check out all the great ideas, conversations, and themes that come out of the national disability conference. I’ll be doing my best to bring it all to you LIVE!

I’m back from my ‘wheely big OE’, and excited to announce I’ll be restarting blog production on walkingisoverrated.com! Over the next few days I’ll be updating the site with a new look and feel, so don’t freak out if things look a bit different around here! I’d also love people to help write for the site to keep it fresh so make sure you flick me an email if you’d like to contribute to walkingisoverrated.com That’s all for now! Red

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!

Thanks for coming to check out my blog! If you’d like to get in touch, head on over to the contact page and drop me a message – would love to know your thoughts on the site or the article, or anything else you’d like to discuss! For those who don’t know, this month’s Rise magazine featured me and this site within their illustrious pages. Check out the cover art on the right, and to read their wee interview with

Hi everyone, welcome back to the blog for another year! As of this week I am officially jobless, so look out for a greater frequency of postings and a raft of side-projects I’ve got brewing! Exciting stuff… I haven’t made many new years resolutions to be honest, but would love to hear some of yours! Let me know in the comments below, but other than that consider this the beginning of another year of delicious disability-related discourse. Red

Firstly, I just want to extend a massive apology to all those who entered our latest iPod nano competition, as I’ve been really slack/busy/occupied the last few months, and haven’t got onto this nearly as quickly as I would’ve liked. That aside, thanks to Allan, Barbara, Saphiya, Nic, Honor, and the others that sent me reviews for this month’s competition – your contributions are muchly appreciated! But there can only be one winner, and this month it is… Nic Steenhout!