Category: Disability
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FAB-AT-AT
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Happy FAB-AT-AT Instructions Day! PDF building instructions for my FAB-AT-AT are finally available to buy from Rebrickable.
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Typology of Lego Smartphones
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes To date, Lego has released 25 different smartphone models (1×2 printed tiles). Let’s take a wee journey through the last 12 years of Minifigure mobiles.
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Braille Bricks
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Whilst experiencing further sight loss last year, I went ahead and bought set 40656 ‘LEGO Playing with Braille’. My latest hangar MOC incorporates eight different Braille bricks, spelling out the word Fabuland.
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Life Got Dark
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Life got considerably darker last month. Unfortunately, after 12 months of fighting I have lost the sight in my left eye.
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Old Blue Eye
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes DYK eye trauma can cause your iris colour to change? In an eventful summer health-wise, one of my blue eyes is now green.
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A Patient’s Guide to Eye Surgery
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Practical, honest and positive advice for attending a surgical hospital appointment. Written by a sight loss patient with type-1 diabetes (T1D).
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Face Down, But Looking Up
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes It’s been a challenging winter health-wise, with multiple eye surgeries and extremely poor vision. But family, friends and NHS professionals have helped me find enough fortitude to reach the other side.
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Happy St Andrew’s Day!
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes In just six weeks my ‘Hello, Toilet Dolly!’ fundraiser has reached its goal of £1,000 for the sight loss charity Sight Scotland!
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Hello, Toilet Dolly!
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes ‘Hello, Toilet Dolly!’ is my latest Sight Scotland charity fundraiser. For a chance to win a unique and functional Lego toilet doll, please donate via my JustGiving page.
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Fabuland Story Time
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Finished a microscale version of Fabuland set number 341: ‘Catherine Cat’s House and Mortimer Mouse’ at the weekend.
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Runner-up Winner!
Estimated reading time: < 1 minute Thank you to everyone who voted, I’m pleased to announce that my ‘Lego Mouse Party’ model was a runner-up winner!
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One Year
Estimated reading time: < 1 minute One year ago today I had my fifth surgery for a recurring detached retina.