I just go in from quite an interesting trip. A few days ago, Alan at GAD emailed me asking if I could attend a meeting in Woolwich – he’d have liked to have one himself but couldn’t. It seemed some guys from Greenwich council needed a wheelchair user to assess what improvements need to be made to the pavements down by Maryon park. I said I would gladly help, so today, having been emailed a rendezvous point yesterday, I headed down there.

It was a pretty simple task: all they wanted me to do was point out what might be improved from my perspective. We met at Samuel Street and walked to the park, the gentlemen noting what might be improved along the way, such as things that needed repairing or where they could put drop curbs. They didn’t need me long about half an hour – then I was making my way home, glad to have made a small contribution to accessibility in the borough.