Category: Disability

  • FAB-AT-AT

    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.

  • Typology of Lego Smartphones 

    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.

  • Braille Bricks

    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.

  • Life Got Dark

    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.

  • Old Blue Eye

    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.

  • A Patient’s Guide to Eye Surgery

    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).

  • Face Down, But Looking Up

    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.

  • Happy St Andrew’s Day!

    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!

  • Hello, Toilet Dolly!

    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.

  • Fabuland Story Time

    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.

  • Runner-up Winner!

    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!

  • One Year

    One Year

    Estimated reading time: < 1 minute One year ago today I had my fifth surgery for a recurring detached retina.