As a disabled blogger, there is only one thing for me to flag up today: according to this story, BBC News reporter Frank Gardner was forced to crawl on his arse to an airplane loo and back again. Gardner can’t use his legs as he was paralysed by Al-Qa’Ida gunmen twenty years ago, but on a flight from Warsaw back to London on Monday he had to crawl on the floor of the plane in order to reach the toilet. As undignified as that sounds, however, I’m afraid to say it’s only par for the course: I’ve heard numerous accounts of people with disabilities having to crawl or being carried onto or off planes because the airline didn’t have an aisle chair. If memory serves it happened to Lyn once or twice. Thus I’m sad to say that this doesn’t surprise me at all. At least now that someone like Gardner has spoken up about it, perhaps something will start to get done to sort it.