tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post116773329125178695..comments2024-01-26T10:20:37.836+00:00Comments on Diary of a Goldfish: MovingThe Goldfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1167875483920723072007-01-04T01:51:00.000+00:002007-01-04T01:51:00.000+00:00The photo is lovely! The place appears to have a p...The photo is lovely! The place appears to have a pleasant soothing feeling to it. I am sure you will be happy once you are there!<BR/><BR/>P.S. Look into getting the beach municipal government people to have those wheelchair buggies available for rent-- the ones with the big puffy wheels, so you can roam around.<BR/><BR/>And jostle at least one pub on accessibility, so you can do the British pub thing too!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1167815907824875652007-01-03T09:18:00.000+00:002007-01-03T09:18:00.000+00:00I do hope you'll find a lovely place to stay. Whit...I do hope you'll find a lovely place to stay. Whitby surely a very nice place, but do you know the saying "home is where your people are"? If access to your friends and familiy is much better in the south, then it should be worth moving there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1167760958869586062007-01-02T18:02:00.000+00:002007-01-02T18:02:00.000+00:00I hope all goes well with your move.I hope all goes well with your move.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1167759584603858742007-01-02T17:39:00.000+00:002007-01-02T17:39:00.000+00:00Thanks folks.Sally, no worries about being motheri...Thanks folks.<BR/><BR/>Sally, no worries about being motherish. Fortunately, we don't have to worry too much about access because I don't need a wheelchair in the house, just need somewhere manageable to store it. There are other particular needs, but they shouldn't be much trouble organising.<BR/><BR/>As for Local Authorities, there are lots of uncertainties there. Just now HB covers £350 p.c.m rent on a two bedroom flat (which only increased last year from £300). There is nothing, not even a bedsit with that sort of rent in the areas we looked at down south, but then there aren't many actual flats, they're all little bungalows, often detached. Which would be lovely, but the only way of telling for absolute certain is to move in and then claim benefit. We do have some Pretenancy Determination forms, where they'll estimate how much they'll give you. So that's something.<BR/><BR/>East Anglia looks to be winning out, but Rosie, Adrian and Alexander are hoping to move very shortly themselves (up the <I>property ladder</I>, perhaps a far more stressful business in the greater scheme of things), within the area. They hope to have somewhere where they can easily put us up, so hopefully we'll have trips down to their (and your) neck of the woods, which will be far more viable if we're only across in Suffolk.The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1167757129210168262007-01-02T16:58:00.000+00:002007-01-02T16:58:00.000+00:00Oh Goldfish, what a splendid idea. I do understand...Oh Goldfish, what a splendid idea. I do understand not wanting to leave Whitby - but it is so much warmer down here and we have sea side and stuff ! How you can bear to live so far from Alexander I could not imagine. <BR/><BR/>Can I put in a plea that you don't rush into finding a place, but first find a local authority that has a good budget (so not North Dorset then, but East Dorset is better off, but I know nothing of other local authorities)) and get Social Services support for housing that is suitable for your very real disabilities. Housing Associations are always worth finding out about - my 'Bump' rents a super HA bungalow with garden and level access throughout.<BR/><BR/>Enquiries into this may delay the move a bit, but wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to glide up your very own path in your own mobility aid/wheelchair/scooter, through the door, into a garden, out the to shops/library/whatever when the mood and energy takes you.<BR/><BR/>And the National Trust beaches in Dorset (and probably elsewhere)have board walks for wheelchairs AND you can hire ones with enormous tyres to take you into the water. Not in January though.<BR/><BR/>If I am being 'mother-ish' do say and I will shut up.Sallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08223682934383856392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1167749542242301022007-01-02T14:52:00.000+00:002007-01-02T14:52:00.000+00:00good luck, indeed.good luck, indeed.benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03082138040950123534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1167745275227967452007-01-02T13:41:00.000+00:002007-01-02T13:41:00.000+00:00Good luck with that!Good luck with that!Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639094548415759560noreply@blogger.com