PCA points don’t count for DLA…

Another question from the search-engine list – If you have 30 Personal Capability Assessment (PCA), points do you get DLA? No, absolutely not. PCA applies to Incapacity Benefit, and assesses your capability to work. It has nothing at all to do with DLA, which, as I’ve said previously, is payable whether you work or not, [...]

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Fat people, and the language of oppression…

The language of the anti-fat brigade is, at heart, the time-worn and despicable  language of oppression. If “Jew” or “Black” was substituted for fat or obese in their all too frequent attacks, these people would probably be arrested. The Evening Standard, below, for example, should surely have been busted for inciting public disorder, but it [...]

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Claiming DLA, not claiming IB/ESA…

Another from my search-engine list – can I still apply for DLA if I do not get IB/ESA? Absolutely – DLA is nothing to do with either benefit – you can claim it even if you are working. It’s provided to help the disabled with the additional costs of mobility and care that disability generates. [...]

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Mobility scooters – a few notes…

Another search-engine list nugget – 2 wheel Motability scooters. Firstly, the writer means mobility, not Motability – and yes, there’s a difference – and there are no 2-wheel mobility scooters. I happen to think there should be though. Motability’s scooter and powerchair arm, by the way, is called Route2Mobility these days. Mobility scooters are electric, [...]

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Adverse drug reactions…

Just a quickie – this question popped up in my search engine list, and needs an answer – If you react to one antibiotic will you react to others? Presumably that means an adverse reaction and, in my extensive experience – antibiotics have kept me alive since they were first released for public use in [...]

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Making your own bread when you have ME/CFS…

In Loafing around – about bread-making (who’d have thought?) – I mentioned that the pain from the arthritis in my hands and elbows was causing problems. It was, too; the pain after the first loaf was pretty serious, though I played it down so as not to deter anyone else  from trying. A little over [...]

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Deleting Firefox 3 bookmarks…

I keep seeing complaints about the impossibility of deleting Firefox 3 bookmarks, but there isn’t a problem; a simple right-click – delete does the job, as it always did. So I got to thinking – it there a problem with terminology here? Is it, in fact, the dismal

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Michael Jackson…

He was a sodding pop singer (not to mention a probable paedophile; after all, the estimated $20 million pay-off to Jordy Chandler’s family wasn’t the action of someone with nothing to hide). He wasn’t a major-league world statesman, or someone on the verge of finding a cure for cancer, or for Lindsay Lohan, so let’s [...]

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Hypothyroidism and ME/CFS…

Apologies if I’ve posted this twice. I know I’ve written it somewhere, I just can’t remember where. I think it was on a website I’ve contributed to. I’ve also corrected the typo in the title! . The following is based on my personal experience, and a huge amount of research. I didn’t just rush into [...]

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Opening time…

Is there a decent can opener out there? I want the type that cuts under the can’s rim. I have one – Sainsbury’s own brand – that cuts inside the rim (the more common way), and on round cans it’s brilliant, but it won’t cut rectangular cans. Not that, as a veggie/piscatarian, I open many [...]

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