Ah, Gentle Readers. Welcome back. 2022 looks a bit grim, doesn't it? January has flown past, and despite having had several post ideas, all of them are currently languishing in Drafts. My apologies. But also not my apologies - I challenge you to find a single person who produced something funny or inspiring during a … Continue reading Acts of Radical Self-Care
Memory is a funny thing. You think that your memories are accurate, but the passage of time takes the edges off a memory, leaving only the soft and shining centre. You forget the sadness or the pain that might have led to that memory, forget the joy. You just…remember. Remember it your way, and that’s … Continue reading The Memory Caretaker
Well, it's been a week. A long, tiring, difficult week, that has culminated in my taking a mental health day from work, because. So...Fri-yay!!! I mean, I love my Dream Team, and I love my actual job, but there are some real buggers I interact with, and I ran out of patience on Tuesday afternoon … Continue reading Friday? Fri-yay!
Hello Gentle Readers. Apologies for the long silence and lack of posting. I have been moving house, contributing to bid-writing at work and dealing with some personal stuff. In all of that, the ability to post just slipped off my radar. But I woke up this morning and I thought, "Better get back on it, … Continue reading Whoops…I lost track of time.
I've had three conversations today about weight gain during the RoRo lockdown. That's three more conversations than I'd want to have about weight gain, and two more than were helpful. Well, I say three conversations; I mean two conversations and a BBC article about weight gain. Plus Girl Housemate went on Slimming World last week … Continue reading Biscuit-based anaesthesia
I'm always happy when I get to a Friday. I don't know why - maybe because it's the end of my working week, maybe because years of hating school have me conditioned - even as an adult - to down tools on a Friday at 4.30pm and head out for the weekend. Today has been … Continue reading Friday? Fri-yay!
It's arrived. The time of the year when it starts to warm up and my fingers go into...THE CLAW. It was the first symptom I experienced last year, which made me think something wasn't right - my hands, in the warm weather, seize up and get very stiff. Last year, I carried a bottle of … Continue reading Fibro fingers
Describing me as 'in good health' would be like describing our dear PM as 'possessing a functional brain', or the former PM as 'a kind caring woman who has never eaten a child whole in her life'. To be clear: it would be a lie.* I'm mostly OK with being a walking cliché of health … Continue reading Double Dispensing Day
I love the 'On This Day' feature on Facebook. There are so many memories that would be consigned to time and history, mothballed, stashed in the memory attic and never revisited, if not for Facebook. Like, every year on my birthday, Facebook brings up a photo of my brother wearing my pink bobble hat, with … Continue reading [sings] Memory, all alone in the moonlight…
Lockdown got to me. At last. It really was only a matter of time before something happened. Apparently, week six is the week to start with the madness. Which explains nothing because I’m on week seven. I’ve been pretending I’m coping but today I left myself alone with a mirror, a pair of scissors and … Continue reading Whoops. Cut myself a fringe.
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