David's blog

I am still pissed off with the PIP situation, I haven't heard anything regarding the appeal. I spoke to friend last night who has had his result and is 4 times better off than me, I don't think his situation warrents such difference. I know that his eyesight is quite a bit worse than mine, but we are both registered as blind. It just goes to show that this PIP is a bloody farce thought its not funny in relaton to the pain it causes but it seems it a lottery where if you turn up on the right day you get the 'jackpot; it stinks really.  They took the money off me even though I had been through the humiliating process.  The whole thing makes me very angry really, maybe I should tell them to shove their money these people are vile.  The way they are behaving is no way to treat people who are disabled and sick, they really stink.  I never asked for this benefit in the first place, I was given the chance to apply and did and was given a life time award, well that's what I w

Well its been a tough time lately, health worries, money worries and wretched neighbours and now some bad news about a friend, well maybe I was not that a close friend, as this person died alone in their flat recently, I heard today.  In a close community such as Blaenau Ffestiniog you don't really expect to hear about about people who have been dead for a few weeks before no one finds them.  I think this kind of thing is common in impersonal places like big cites but not its a bit of a shock to find it happens in small rural towns. I knew this person was not well and had been unwell for a long time, and if he did not check himself into a care home or someone else do it for him it I feard the worst really.  The last time I saw him he was very uncomfortable, he had a multitude of problems.  His passing will relieve his pain but it is a shame that it was in such circomstances, this guy was very independent and maybe that is one of the reasons why it did end up like it did.  I thin