An Australian quadriplegic, who last month won a landmark legal right to starve to death, has died. Christian Rossiter, 49, died in a nursing home in Perth, West Australia, after developing a chest infection. A former outdoor adventurer, he had won...

Dashing through the snow In jingling chairs on wheels, Over the fields we go, With many excited squeals. Bells on our wheels ring, Making spirits bright What fun it is to race and sing A Christmas song tonight. Jingle wheels, jingle wheels, We...

Ouch’s Tom Shakespeare has been reading some 19th century English literature, and has come away claiming that Santa Claus is DisAbled. Now he’s made me take the time to blog something that’s been going around in my head for a little while. Is anyone...

I think the ‘Weekend Cartoon’ series as it was has come to an end now, but I still love Crippen’s cartoons. While waiting for snow, I thought I’d post this one. Thanks, as always, to Crippen.

  Frosty the snowman, Had everything but feet A carrot pipe, Black button nose, And a snowy four-wheeled seat. Frosty the snowman Is a fairy tale they say He was made of snow But the children know How he came to life one day. There must...

Thanks to the BBC Ouch blog, where I have just read that Rita Marcalo, who planned to induce an epileptic seizure on stage last Friday, to raise awareness of epilepsy, was unsuccessful in her attempt to do this.