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Ron Sharratt lives in Woodingdean. He will be blogging about the funny side of being disabled.

On the level.

On a nice sunny day last week I took a trip to the Lanes in Brighton. It was great seeing all the people sitting outside eating and drinking and enjoying themselves especially as we were approaching the end of September. As I only have partial use in my legs I can't walk very far and was glad to sit down in one of the many coffee shops to rest my legs and have a drink.

Staying in to work.

I watched a programme on American television the other day about the ever growing number of people in that country who are now working from home rather than going out to work. They are doing this thanks to computers and the internet – the method by which I was able to watch live American TV from home in Brighton.

To stay in or not stay in - that is the question.

This last week I have been bunged up with a type of flu which has been doing the rounds – a dry cough, sore throat, difficulty in speaking and, worse of all, just feeling run down and under the weather.

Even Santa discriminates against the disabled.

You expect a present from Santa - not for him to turn his back on you.

Ouch - it's jab time again.

It's time to get protection from the bugs.

All Change at the County

I went to a meeting the other week to discuss the future of the Royal Sussex County Hospital. I have an interest in health services and sit on a number of bodies in the Health Service as a Patient Representative.

Do you know about BHICS?

I’m not a betting man but if I was I wouldn’t mind betting that most people would answer this question by replying “no”. Yet it’s something you should know about because this organisation – if it has not dealt with you already – will probably be dealing with you, or one of your loved ones, sometime soon.

I love my scooter

Mobility scooters have made a big difference to the lives of many disabled and elderly people - including me.

I'm an unholy man looking for love

There’s a Speed-Dating Party this weekend at a cafe in Rottingdean – when I first heard of it I thought it was a joke. I thought: “How could such a thing happen in posh Rottingdean?"

Let me out

Being kept in makes you apppreciate being able to get out.

An Honour Well-deserved

I was absolutely “over the moon” on hearing in the Argus today (New Year’s Eve) that a friend of mine Robert Brown from Bevendean has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours. If anyone deserved an honour it is Robert.

Time For Yoga

Christmas is here again and I,like most other people, I am stuffing myself with all the usual goodies such as mince pies and Christmas cake – things which, according to my homeopath friend, have the nutritional value of -100.

Pardon Me For Being Aggressive - I'm Just Trying to Help

Many thanks to those good people in Hove who were so generous when I was collecting for the Muscular Dystrophy charity outside Tescos the other week and my apologies for my apparent aggressiveness.

Poor me - I've never been chugged

Chugger is a word you may never have come across but it’s been made up from the words “charity mugger” and is used for the young folk with clipper boards and pens who accost people walking along in the centre of Brighton and Hove.