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Autism and Disability Rights

Preparations for tomorrow, photographs from in and around King’s Lynn and pointing up a couple of things brought to my attention by DPAC

Autism and Disability Rights

INTRODUCTION

The links I am sharing in this post are to do with disability rights. I am also going to be setting the stage in this post for the main thrust of tomorrow’s blogging, which is where the autism part of the title comes in.

NETWORK AUTISM

I will be attending an event in Dereham tomorrow morning which has been organised jointly by Autism Anglia and ASD Helping Hands. Dereham has been chosen as a location because we are dealing with a large area, and King’s Lynn to Norwich is too long a journey for most to consider acceptable (and even more so in reverse). Along with everything else, I have been making preparations for that.

GETTING THERE AND BACK

I have mad arrangements with someone who lives in Watlington and will be travelling by car to be given a lift. In order to avoid the necessity of the driver coming into the middle of King’s Lynn at what would be a busy time we have arranged to meet in the car park of the Gatehouse pub. It being fine outside I was up for a walk anyway, so I started by walking the best route between my house and the car park in question. Those familiar with this blog will not need to be told that in aspiblog terms when talking about walking routes “best” and “shortest” are not necessarily synonymous, and my chosen route is not by any means the shortest. However I class at as the “best” walking route because it minimises the amount of time I spend close to busy roads.

I set off at 13:31 (I needed to time this first section) and headed over the bridge across the upper Purfleet, across King Street, and down to mouth of the lower Purfleet, where I crossed the other pedestrian bridge to walk along the bank of the Great Ouse as far as Millfleet, from where I took the path around old Boal Quay to the Nar Outfall, and briefly rejoined the riverbank until I reached the path through Hardings Pits to Hardings Way, which I followed to its end near the South Lynn Baptist Church, where I crossed the road it joins, crossed the Nar and walked along to the South Gates roundabout, where one more road crossing took me to the edge of the car park which tomorrow morning will be my destination. Having recorded that I had got to the car park at 14:02, and hence been underway for 31 minutes I continued my walk by way of the cemetery, The Walks, Lynnsport and finally back into town by way of Bawsey Drain. 

When I got back I found a facebook message awaiting me telling me that the ETA for my lift at the car park tomorrow was 9:20 – 9:30, so factoring in the timings for today and reckoning that if anyone has to wait it should be me I am planning on leaving my flat at approximately 8:40AM tomorrow. 

Here are some of the pictures I took while out walking (including some in the first section which I was timing – where I go my camera goes).

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The sun shining on the Great Ouse.
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Marriott’s – note the people using the outside seats.

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More light tricks courtesy of Helios and the Great Ouse.
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The former Wagg-Jex building been done up and turned into flats
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The South Gate
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The Gatehouse pub

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A DPAC DUO

Disabled People Against Cuts have put out two very important pieces today. First, they draw our attention to a day of action against the vicious barbarism known as “Benefit Sanctions” organised by UNITE Community for March 30th. Please read this piece in full by by clicking on the image of an anti-sanction badge (from that post) below:

No Sanctions logo

The second piece from DPAC relates the upcoming mayoral elections in Manchester. The Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People has developed a Disability Manifesto. This manifesto has been sent to all the mayoral candidates, and for those of you who use social media, a thunderclap has been launched to oput further pressure on the candidates to sign up to this manifesto. 

Thus there are three links to conclude this post:

  1. The DPAC piece.
  2. The GMCDP Manifesto.
  3. The Thunderclap, which I have already supported, and urge those of you who are on social media (facebook, twitter, tumblr or any combination thereof) to do likewise by clicking on the picture below:
    GMCDP Manifesto

TOMORROW

My aim tomorrow is to put a post before I set off finishing the sharing of links I have started today, and then once I am back from Network Autism to put up a post about that.

Author ThomasPosted on March 13, 2017March 13, 2017Categories Autism, Autism Awareness, PoliticsTags "best" not necessarily equal to "shortest", ASD Helping Hands, Autism, Autism Acceptance, Autism Anglia, Autism Awareness, Benefit Sanctions, Birds, Blackbirds, buildings, Cormorants, Crocuses, Day of action against benefit sanctions, DPAC, GMCDP, Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, Gulls, Marriott's Warehouse, mayoral elections, Moorhens, NAS West Norfolk, Nature Photography, network autism, Photography, sparrows, The Gatehouse, the GMCDP manifesto, The South Gate, thunderclap to put pressure on mayoral candidates to sign up to GMCDP, thunderclaps, UNITE Community, Walking, walking routes1 Comment on Autism and Disability Rights

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