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Behind the Eight Ball
Thursday was a wonderful day. I went to a work event for the first time since February for an away day. Everyone was very warm and pleased to see me. The ‘no hug’ plan went out of the window. Unexpectedly I was showered with giant cards and thoughtful gifts. My colleagues had made a collection…
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Fear and other animals
I don’t indulge fear very often. It feels like a wasted emotion on the whole but sometimes it sneaks up on you doesn’t it. Fear for loved ones is probably much worse than fear for yourself. That I can control to an extent. Although during my diagnosis I got that whole system burn like I…
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Lean mean green neurodivergent soundmaking machine
Lying awake in the heat at 2.30am. An unusual 28C at night in the UK. I’m glad of it in the day as it disguises my induced menopausal sweats when everyone else is sweating. I look like I’ve been swimming or just come out of the shower in the days following my hormone injection. I…
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Mindball
Today’s events triggered a memory. When I was a young TV director I worked on a show called Tomorrow’s World. You’ll be familiar with it if you grew up in the UK and are over forty I reckon. As a lot of my readers are not from the UK I shall describe it to you…
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‘All the Colours of the Dark’
There are things that are hard to articulate about this process of attempting to save one’s own life. The major one is the slip slide of reality. If you can be bothered to read on, this is going to be pretty trippy and you will probably abandon me, dear Reader, thinking I have slipped off…
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