And so it begins...

Winter, that is.

I've been meaning to move the garden furniture into the shed for weeks and finally did it this morning. Came back in, literally swearing at how cold it was, and went to get myself a cup of coffee. I was barely in the kitchen for a couple of minutes and came back out to find it was snowing! 

That's cutting it fine! (Though all we have so far is a light dusting).

Amusingly Alexa popped up about an hour later with a Met Office warning for snow from 5PM. Bit late, that.

Oh, FFS...

23 years on from the debacle of not having a ramp up to the stage when Tanni Grey-Thompson placed Third in Sports Personality of the Year, the Beeb is still forgetting to provide access for disabled people. One of the University Challenge Christmas Specials had one blind team member and another with what sounds like Auditory Processing Disorder. The blind team member was told as the show was about to start that the agreed audio description of the visual questions would not be provided, and the team member with APD had a point blank refusal to provide subtitling to let them process the questions at the same speed as everyone else, plus apparently other adjustments that were provided, but weren't effective.

They both complained and the show has now been pulled at their request.

By refusing to provide reasonable adjustments, I think there's a pretty good chance that the Beeb actually breached the Equality Act. 

University Challenge special axed over lack of support for disabled contestants

University Challenge: Christmas episode axed after ableism complaints