Accentuate

Suggestions of award systems, showing the increased profits that can be made by welcoming disabled customers, highlighting legislative responsibilities and the penalties for those who don't comply ...all ways to encourage local authorities and tourism providers to be more accessible.

Whilst I welcome the work and mostly feel satisfaction in appeasing my campaigning urges and hopefully helping to bring about change, I often feel fatigued by the need to do it at all.

Are we really such a world away from being able to just do things because it is the right thing to do? Money and vanity: the scourge of a capitalist society. I long for a time when people are no longer making decisions based on 'what's in it for me?' and start asking 'what's in it for everyone?' How refreshing would that be?

I may be a hippy at heart but sometimes I think that the changes we are making, will in reality, only be a scratch on the surface. Real change comes with a change of hearts and minds as well as action. At the moment it is easy to feel that any change is better than no change, but will that make a real cultural shift and one that is self-sustaining?

Sometimes I feel a bit like I'm adding a pretty bow to lions' neck; it hasn't tamed the lion or removed its capacity to bite but it has made it look more friendly.