Liam O'Carroll

SLCs are working with e-bike & e-scooter operators to make the streets safer for #blind & #PartiallySighted people. We worked with @limebike to create video which explains the impact of inappropriate parking on people with sight loss. Learn more: bit.ly/41T8kGv

Death anniversary today: #JohnRoweTownsend. Works #HellsEdge #TheIntruder #WishforWings #Runaways #FameandFortune #TheInvaders #DanAlone

£JohnRoweTownsend knew how to hold a reader, using menace, atmosphere, unsettling suggestion and all deftly pressaged in the opening sentence of the narrative: oh yes, and I'm referring to £TheIntruder of course.

Anyone reading The Intruder by John Rowe Townsend at the moment? Hounslow library has it, get down there and borrow it, it's top! a lovely page-turner.

Spring arrivals: heard some lovely birdsong today, not heard since last September. no doubt just returned from their winter nests. I wonder what they were? Where's Percy Edwards when you need him?

#London SLC had a fantastic turnout to their ‘Access Gyms: Making VI fitness better’ event @Better_Camden #Blind & #PartiallySighted Londoners came together to learn how to get more active at leisure facilities & gyms across the capital. Read more here: bit.ly/3JWMc6M

Check out my latest short story 'Body of Literature' at the website Perro Negro to whom i am very grateful for publishing! revistaperronegro.com/liam-ocarroll-…

London SLC leads first VI Awareness session sightlosscouncils.org.uk/news/london-sl…

"My biggest fear has been realised - he has removed the entire accessibility team" Tech access expert Leonie Watson explains what Elon Musk's recent staff lay-offs at Twitter could mean for disabled people: bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0d…

Braille and me londonvision.org/blog/braille-a… As it is National Braille Week, thought it was time to share my blog on this remarkable reading system:

On 4 September 925 at Kingston Athelstan was crowned ‘King of the Anglo-Saxons’ . He had prob been proclaimed King of the Mercians the previous year. He will become the first king of all the English.

Any fiction recommendations where a main character is visually impaired? (and doesn’t have sonar abilities)

If you did the Kingston #parkrun on 21 October 2017 you can now say you've run with the new 1500m world champion Jake Wightman. (He finished first in 15 mins 46 secs that day). He's also done Bushy Park parkrun a few times over the years.

Hello Horsley! Great to be here in #Horsley for another gig. #ablindbitofdifference

It's such a negative experience being barred from businesses or taxis because of a guide dog: please support. Guide dogs need to be welcomed everywhere. Too often owners are illegally turned away. Sign the @gdcampaigns petition #OpenDoorsForGuideDogs bit.ly/3P2NRHR

This summer is going to be tough for a lot of families, please #RT it may help someone

You know if I’m not disabled enough to be given a priority seat. Then why is it I’m seemingly too disabled to be offered a full time job? I feel that this society very much likes to have its cake and eat it when it comes to the way it treats disabled people.

I know I’m not the only one with access needs and I know that I’m not the only one who needs to use priority seats. But I’m really tired of getting on public transport and having people look straight through me because they don’t want to acknowledge me.