Charlie Radclyffe

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For myself being more of a challenging learning experience than for others

Compassion was my word of the year last year; for others and myself.

Generally, this is good news, obviously. I guess I would just say that £400 is not that much. And only 60k people benefitted from the home adaptation stuff, so it's a relatively small number.

But, again, this is better than their attempts to take money away from disabled people.

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Nice to see their family tree

Indeed. A contact says it is nearer 1.5 million but I can’t find anything to back that up.

And I’m one of those you describe: someone who primarily walks (with crutches) and sometimes uses (and needs at those times) a wheelchair.

I often pass by the village of Ide in Devon, which some say has the longest ford in England.

They put up road restrictions on the lane a few years back, I think on the grounds of public safety rather than ecological harm, but maybe a case to look into.

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Anyone know how many people in the UK use a wheelchair?

Had a quick search and no clear answer came to hand

#UK #disability #wheelchair

£400 cash boost for disabled adults to tackle cost of living 150,000 disabled adults to keep £400 more cash each year to help with cost of living, and £700 million to support tens of thousands of home adaptations.

“£400 cash boost for disabled adults to tackle cost of living

• 150,000 disabled adults to keep £400 more cash each year to help with cost of living
• £700 million to support tens of thousands of home adaptations.”

Published yesterday

#disability #UK

www.gov.uk/government/n...

In 2010, I was in India and got an MRI and CT scan the next day for £300 all in… time for a holiday?

@swilkenkc.bsky.social - relevant to your op?

Where’s the “they just got blown all over that family member’s face” option?

Glamorous in my mind, at least until I really consider the practicalities

Today’s tragedy of the commons

I enjoyed this thread by @ruthcadbury.bsky.social describing the caseload challenges of an MP and their team, building upon @aliceolilly.bsky.social’s article

I was grateful for my MP’s efforts last year in trying to resolve a farming matter of mine with the Rural Payment Agency/DEFRA

That’s really interesting. Thank you.

And yes, that explains why I so often hear “so and so went to Yale and ended up with $150,000 of debt” which doesn’t fit with average debt being lower than the Uk

Observer newspaper: “Students in England leave university with three times more debt than in the US” (15/02/2026)

Seriously?

With the amount of US political energy spent discussing student debt, I assumed their levels would be vastly higher than in the UK.

One swallow does not a summer make springs to mind…

Brown hairstreak butterfly egg

Great spot!

I was delighted to find my first brown hairstreak butterfly egg at ours this week. Sadly only had my phone to hand so not such a lovely photo as yours.

Casework Crisis: Increase In Constituency Caseload Takes Its Toll The inexorable growth in casework is stopping MPs from fulfilling their other roles. Alice Lilly sifts through the inbox looking for what might be ...

Always found it so odd/frustrating that issues coming up in MPs' case work aren't systematically logged anywhere (not even within parties) - and other than letters to ministers there's no real feed through into policy.

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My kids were desperate for pancakes when I took the photos so they were rushed. Will take some better ones maybe on Friday once I’m back home.

From photo of hedge laying in process

This drone photo shows the first 100+ metres they’ve been working on.

Yep. The cuts are >80% through the stems, to make them able to be laid flat, but with enough connecting section remaining for the tree to remain alive

Next season the horizontals will sprout vertical stems and the hedge reform

Looks pretty drastic right now but will soon come back

VW Radclyffe roadster

Has hints of the VW Radclyffe Roadster, which - with my surname - I’m always going to be inclined to see in other vehicles…

As a former captain in the British army, I can attest to many UK parallels to this thread

Just wrote to my MP about BBC world service

His reply staryed: “Before replying to your reasonable points on the World Service, can I just pass on my thanks for your service to our country in our Armed Forces.”

Dunno what prompted him to add/say that

Anyone else had this from Conservative MP?

Asked representatives from 10 different tribunal areas… 😂🤦🏻‍♂️🤯

Devon laid hedge, with next stage to work on shown

Devon laid hedge

8yo holding the ridiculously massive crooking mallet

Hedge laying going well so far.

This team of three plan to do 60 metres a day between them.

Photo 1: section of laid hedge
2: laid hedge up until next stage to do.
3: my 8yo holding the wonderfully oversized crooking mallet (to bash wooden “crooks” down to hold horizontals in place)