Wishing you a Merry Christmas 2012
and always a hard-working snow removal service!
Archive for 十二月, 2012
Ho, ho, ho…!!!
星期一, 十二月 24th, 2012Night of the Proms 2012
星期日, 十二月 23rd, 2012Yesterday I had again a great evening in the time-honoured concert hall “Festhalle” in Frankfurt (year of construction 1907) at the
Night of the Proms 2012
This time except traditionally with John Miles, the concert orchestra Il Novecentro” and others, as Special Guests
Anastacia,
Mick Hucknall (Simply Red)
also the “Echo” winners 2012 (German music award), Jupiter Jones.
After the concert at the wheelchair exit he was suddenly standing next to me,
Nicolas Müller, the singer of Jupiter Jones!!!
If you press the remote control of the park heating from your car in the concert hall during the encore you will always have a warm car afterwards. This is easily 100 meter linear distance.
Such an old sandstone building is really good, but not very useful in continuous rain like yesterday either.
Translator BL
End of the world today 21.12.2012
星期五, 十二月 21st, 2012
Apocalypse Rehearsal!
Expedition Mexico 2007
Scan the picture: The green T-Shirt, that’s me 
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Eigude Shame XXII
星期四, 十二月 20th, 2012Sad, sad, sad…!!!
When I saw this new disabled toilet in a hospital I started thinking a little and got my camera first of all.
This toilet is disabling!!!
I consider the equipment and construction, described in friendly words, as unfortunate solution and declare this disabled toilet to be the patient.
It all starts that hardly any wheelchair user can lock the sliding door from the inside because the lock is mounted quite high. This is also possible in a different way, see older blogpost.
The transfer from wheelchair to toilet would be quite painful if not dangerous because no second handle is mounted next to the toilet. I don’t know the official regulation, but I consider two handles in a hospital disabled toilet as a matter of course.
The toilet paper holder is currently out of work. The paper roll was probably thrown into the toilet or taken away for handicrafts by the last guest because not even a dustbin is at hand.
Considering the distance to the wall, the fishing for toilet is paper is a bit tricky anyway…!!!
Maybe with some physiotherapy the new toilet paper roll under the toilet might be reachable without involuntary floor transfer.
I don’t know if the fact of
anticipated grossly negligent non-assistance
exists, but this is the case here.
A not unwound emergency cord is not acceptable for me. I would have unwound it, but I definitely can’t do it with my motor functions…!!!
It is also possible in a different way. In the pool shower in the wheelchair hotel Mar y Sol in Tenerife (see older blogposts) several emergency buttons are ideally mounted on ground level.
My friend said, when I am not able to lock the door anyway it is not necessary either to reach the emergency cord when I am lying on the floor.
I would just need to crawl to the door and wait for the next patient.
Translator BL
Crazy Flash XVII
星期四, 十二月 20th, 2012After 15 years of shift work as pedestrian and now since 5 years as frequent driver in a wheelchair I could be addressed by this sign.
I am said to bang my head against a wall sometimes, but a sign directing to the wall is even new to me
“Passing for handicapped and shift-workers only”
What might be hidden behind the wall???
Click on tag “Signs”, there is more to see…
Thanks to Thomas B. for this snapshot.
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Opening in the cinemas Today
星期四, 十二月 13th, 2012
Winter tip
星期一, 十二月 10th, 2012Prepare – put salt on the ground BEFORE the snow falls!
2 years ago I had the biggest difficulties in winter to get from my wheelchair into the car.
After the snow fell, it froze on the ground to a single layer of ice right next to my door. This caused my wheelchair during transfer to constantly slip which was terrible 
After my friends had removed the ice shelf next to my “Ferrari”, came the nice men from the county road service to clean the street and pushed a mountain of snow right next to my car.
So I still could not get in to the car!!!!!
Before the next snow fall I had all of a sudden salt already laying there next to my door for immediate defrosting. Miraculously, the salt seems to be falling from the sky, as there is hardly ever any ice and snow on the road next to my “Pole”…!!!!!
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