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When I was 10…
Dream (Photo credit: Xtream_i) I don’t actually remember what I wanted to be when I was growing up. It took me until the age of nine to be walking unaided without any supports on my legs! At that...
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Mirror, Mirror (2)
Mirror (Photo credit: christing-O-) A comment left underneath the post I wrote about Standing Out Sitting Down said how insightful the post was, which has given me some confidence to attempt this...
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Choice
Apologies that there was no shiny new post awaiting your perusal this morning, or indeed last Wednesday or Friday… I have had a few very tired days, due to a sleepless night, and a measure of extra...
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The one with the wedding (2)
the picture shows two intertwined gold wedding bandshttp://www.sxc.hu/photo/1326034 A year on from the last wedding I attended, this past weekend, I went to another. This time, not of family, but of...
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Five minute Friday: Write
Writing (Photo credit: Wikipedia) There are many times where I am too poorly to write, or so tired that I either cannot get my words out or I cannot sit up straight enough in my wheelchair to write...
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(tell me why) I don’t like Mondays…
As it is Monday today, I have been acutely aware a blog post was due, having been asleep and unable to fuction for the majority of Saturday, and out for the majority of Sunday, I have had no chance to...
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Care, employment and families – big week for disability
jacksdavie:Trust the Government to squish debates on such big issues into the last week in the hopes not as many MP’s will attend / notice / care. As usual, as mentioned by Scope, the numbers of people...
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Age, not just a number…
Milestones, done differently… I have a pretty good idea of which milestone I reached at which age, from talking to my parents over the years, from photographs or from my own memories. I was late to...
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fifteen on Friday: people who make ‘snap’ decisions
Fifteen on Friday is a space where I write about something related to my experience of disability and illness. It stems from ‘five-minute Friday when I followed prompts set by the originator of the...
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Writer in the making….
This is Part 2 of the Weekly Writing challenge from 24 March. The prompt went like this: Every superhero has an ‘origin’ story of how they came into being. If applied to myself, How did I begin to be a...
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Taking inventory: From the outside looking in
Winding the clock back to the end of December last year, when the New Year was so shiny and new it had yet to begin, I had a conversation with my therapist where I had a definite “light-bulb moment”....
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More than just a garden (2)
Unbelievably, it’s 9 months since a Garden Party was held to mark the official opening of the new front garden in the grounds of the big old house I, and my housemates call ‘home’. A monumental effort...
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