My sister and I are roadtrippin’ it down to Mt Maunganui this weekend to see one of my best friends get married! Whilst it’s all very exciting, it also means the blog won’t be updated over the weekend, so um, prepare yourselves No doubt I’ll have tonnes of photos and things to report upon my arrival! Let’s see how this idyllic beach town stacks up accessibility-wise, shall we? Have a good weekend everyone!

Hey everyone, You might’ve noticed that I no longer have a link to the forums atop my menu bar. I took it off because not many people were using them, and it made the site look a bit unused and outdated – not really the image I’m going for! If enough people want them back then I’ll chuck the link back up. In the meantime, you can still access them via http://walkingisoverrated.com/forum.

Last week I flicked an email off to the people at NZ’s newest airline, Pacific Blue, letting them know of the fantastic feedback submitted by one of our blog readers. They had this to say: Dear Red, Thank you for taking the time to email us with the fantastic compliments you came across on the internet. Please accept our sincerest apologies for the delayed reply. A major system outage has meant that all emails from last week were not received

Stumbled across a neat little site today called soulfulencounters.com, which is a bit like Facebook or Myspace, except it’s targeted specifically at those with a disability. Soulful Encounters has grown from a small disabled dating site to a large online community for the disabled. Our online community welcomes anyone, with any disability and at any stage of life. Find what you need, whether that be a relationship, companionship, friendship or lasting love. And here at Soulful Encounters you will always

Just in case you hadn’t seen enough of me on the TV or in your local newspaper, a local Nelson radio station was brave enough to put my voice on their airwaves as well! Listen to the full interview here

Update: Hey everyone, thanks for checking out the site! It doesn’t matter where you are in the country, if you’d like to contribute an “accessible” review, send it through to me at: head on over to the forums! With a bit of effort I reckon we can make this site the best disability site in the country Mark Sainsbury and I went for a wander around Auckland City today, filming a segment for TV One’s CloseUp show. The slot discusses