Today I would just like to air an idea which I’ve been mulling over for a while. I admit it might not be practical or get any traction, but nonetheless I’d like to put it out into the electronic ether. As I go around all these fabulous places around London such as the O2, Canary Wharf or Stratford, naturally I go past lots of restaurants, and can smell the delicious food drifting out of them. The problem is, on my trundles I’m usually alone so I have nobody to help me eat. This means I can’t actually go into a restaurant to eat anything, which can be agonising, especially if I’m hungry. My idea, though, is this: would it be possible for restaurants, or at least larger ones, to have members of staff trained to feed people like me? I don’t mean a dedicated member of staff just waiting for someone like me to show up, but an otherwise ordinary member of the waiting team.

I know that sounds rather far fetched, especially given customers like me will be quite rare, and most disabled people have their own personal assistants following them around to help with such matters anyway. Yet, from my perspective, it would be a great help: it would mean I could go into a restaurant I was passing, order something to eat, and someone there would be available to feed it to me. It would make eating out far more inclusive. A far fetched idea I admit, but one I just needed to air.