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Listed below are comments made by batsgirl between Thursday, 12th February 2009 and Thursday, 12th November 2009.

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Disability Bitch hates ice 10:39am on 12 Nov 2009 I wonder how much of that money will be spent on an awareness campaign telling elderly people that they should walk in the road rather than on the pavement or footpath, because all this money is being spent for them, for their safety while walking, not because it'll make the roads safer for drivers.
Disability Bitch hates food fascists 6:35pm on 06 Nov 2009 Don't forget the ones who try and assert that home-grown food is morally superior too. Or worse still, the ones who are convinced that if you'd only walk to the allotments and do some digging for a couple of hours a day, it would cure every symptom of your illness...

A couple of years back I blogged about a chef called Tom Norrington-Davies who had some *very* strange ideas about what it was possible to cook while feeling "under the weather"...
Disabled or just weak? 6:24pm on 14 Sep 2009 I'm not going to say you're not disabled (as you say, the authorities agree you are) and I'm not going to say you shouldn't be using your free travel pass (since you have it, and are entitled to it, you'd be a fool to not use it).

But I will say, that I think that the "free travel for elderly and disabled people" is very strangely weighted. There's something strange about the idea that I could travel all over the place for free... if only my impairment was such that I could cheerfully toddle to the bus stop. Since I can't, and my local authority doesn't see fit to provide an alternative service for disabled people like me, I'm on full-price taxis or nothing. So much for "free" transport for "all" disabled people. Same goes for those people who would be at risk of getting lost between bus-stop and destination, or who can't read/understand a timetable, or who would melt-down on a bus full of strangers.
Disability Bitch in benefits shocker! 3:03pm on 25 Jun 2009 The bit that tickled me was the admission that the £260m doesn't even include all the people who are entitled to claim DLA, but take one look at the form (or the appeals process) and go "actually, I don't need the money *that* much."
Disability Bitch hates sport 6:58pm on 28 May 2009 I would follow you on Twitter but not hell nor high water will get me to join facebook.
Google touchscreen phone goes 'eyes-free' 12:15pm on 16 Apr 2009 The other lovely access aspect of the G1 (I have one) is that the screen slides up to reveal the keyboard, which has a standard QWERTY keyboard with actual separate keys that you can feel, and raised bumps on the F and the J, and better still, they *click* when you press them - not a computer generated beep, but the actual buttons, you feel and hear them press.
Disability Bitch vs clever internet stuff 6:00pm on 12 Mar 2009 I do read online comments and reviews and find them very useful in helping me come to a decision - for things where I have a wide open choice, such as which mobile phone to buy. But for things like council services, where you're not choosing a provider and in many cases don't even have a choice about whether to use the service or not, what would be the point? Am I going to be able to decide not to pay my council tax because another user says they found the staff at the payments department "unhelpful"?
On the frontline with disabled job hunters 5:54pm on 06 Mar 2009 "He discovers how the agency matches disabled people's skills with the needs of employers"?

Wow. My Remploy experience was somewhat different. Asking them for help sustaining employment was also fruitless.
Pancake Day: flip and hope? 6:32pm on 24 Feb 2009 Evilstevie's my boyfriend, not a PA. I don't think a PA would put up with my batter-wrath, much less eat the results of my cooking attempts. :)
The Mascara Massacre 6:11pm on 12 Feb 2009 Okay...

Eyebrow tweezing: skip it, unless you've got a major monobrow in which case yes, invest in permanent hair removal with a professional. Even if you succeed in tweezing properly, you have to keep messing about with the regrowth and you have to be super-careful about exfoliation so that the pore where the root of the hair was doesn't get infected (which is an even worse look than the monobrow).

Foundation: Buy a tinted moisturiser instead. Squirt some on your hands, rub your hands together, then rub them over your face until your face feels moisturised. It's not a precision job, just try and touch every part of your face at least once, including just under the jawline so you don't have an obvious line on your face where the makeup stops. Then wash the remainder off your hands (this is important. Beige handprints don't look good on a party dress).

Next get a big brush, as big as you can get, and some powder. Also, tuck some tissues into your collar. Load the brush up with powder, close your eyes, and dust it all over your face. Finally, get a clean dry tissue and lightly wipe all over your face, so you're not scrubbing the makeup off, but you're removing any excess and any clumps. Give an extra wipe around your hairline and jawline. Done.

Mascara: Find a windowsill and a reasonable-size mirror (about the size of an A4 piece of paper is ideal). Prop the mirror against the window so your face will be lit, and sit or stand or kneel facing it, with your elbows on the windowsill. Hold the top of the mascara brush like a pen in your fingers. Put the thumb-side of your hand against the hinge of your jaw. This gets the brush in about the right place and at about the right angle. Now, breathing gently, move your face (not your hand!) towards the brush and then breathe out as you close your eyes. Hopefully the eyelashes wipe against the brush as you do so. Move the brush away, open your eyes, and check.

Eyeliner: this is not the 80s. But if you really feel the need, point the pencil towards the bit of your nose where glasses rest, and use very short strokes. Warm the pencil first.

Finally: in the process of putting makeup on, you've been examining your face in great detail, so you can see every blob and blotch as you examine yourself in a mirror two inches from your nose. However no one else is paying that much attention and if they're *that* close they have other things on their mind.

The hair, on the other hand, I share your sympathy and bafflement.

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