David's blog

I have never seen anything like, everytime I switch on the tv or the radio its just more bollox about the old bag who just died.  She was old she was going to die its what happens its no excuse to turn the thing into a circus They are closing things on the day of the burying and cancelling things its absolutely ridiculous the whole thing is just too much and not really very healthy ramming this shit down people's throats day in day out its state propoganda like you would see in Russia and north korea its all very depressing really At least the local shop is staying open on monday and playing along with the madness of it the whole thing. I don't really have much else to say about the royal shitshow only that the media are bad news these days This was a lot of fuss about nothing

  The pandemic has really wrecked the public transport around Gwynedd.  The service I use a lot run by Gwynedd council is the route from Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog.  All my life there has been an hourly bus between the two towns, many go shopping to Porthmadog from Blaenau and many go to work there too. When the pandemic struck the service was reduced due to the lockdown but fairplay to Arriva Cymru there was a still a service going if only twice a day, this service was important due to the shopping in this village is not very good.   It was not possible to go further afield due to the other services not being available so, Blaenau to Porthmadog was the only route open to me at that.  Eventually, probably due to the lack of use of the buses during the lockdown Arriva Wales gave up on the route and new company came in Lloyds of Machynelleth, who have been running what I| call the lockdown service ever since, its skeleton service really, a bus every hour and half in the morning and

  Swimming is very important to me, it helps with release of stress and loosens me up a bit when I get too tense.  It is now nice to be able to get back to swimming after the dreadful two years of being locked away in our houses. The problem I have with swimming is that it hard to find suitable times to go, I am reluctant to go to the ordinary swimming session as I have limited vision so would feel a bit anxious about bumping into people.  There is a way round this and that is to ask for a lane rope to be put in the pool as part of the reasonable adjustments that places have to make in relaton to disability.  This is part of 2010 Equality Act. The term reasonable adjustments is very vague though, who determins what is reasonable and what is not and the hastle of it sometimes can make it harder for disabled people and may come over to some as them being demanding. I know the amount of varied disabilities makes it harder for places to have to make adjustments