We have been best friends since we were sixteen. (That’s a lot of years). We joke about how we live parallel lives – but that may just be because every time we speak we say, “yes! That’s exactly how I’m feeling too!” and we laugh and suddenly the world feels different, because we thought we […]
Archive | April, 2013
Breathe in: breathe out
25th April, 2013 58
I had said to myself I wasn’t going to write this week. As of two days ago, I went on strike. I wasn’t sure if it was my body or my emotions that were the part I had overdone but either way, I felt like an elastic band that had snapped, and was wandering through […]
Kangaroos and writing
19th April, 2013 30
He had finished twirling and now he was jumping. Concentration, both knees bent, then a tiny flight in the air and a big thump forward. That’s a jump. Watching my toddler, it looked like a whole lot of effort. It’s surprising how quickly we forget, how these things become second nature. (Not that I would […]
Do it anyway (One good phrase series for Micha Boyett)
17th April, 2013 0
“Just at the point where I was ready to quit, a teacher played along with me. I stopped focusing on what I was doing wrong, and I followed her lead; I listened to the music. I played it badly, but I played it. And somewhere in the midst of just doing it anyway, I discovered […]
Why this government is failing the disabled AND the taxpayer (DLA vs PIP)
14th April, 2013 77
I have seen a number of news items recently, including periodicals which should know better, saying something like this: “Disability Living Allowance, the benefit that helps with the extra costs of being disabled, is being replaced by PIP. PIP will have regular face-to-face assessments, rather than DLA which was based on self-assessment questionnaires.” This makes […]
Speak, Lord
12th April, 2013 37
You would think it would be easy to be in the here-and-now when you are housebound. My ‘here’ is very comfortable: lemon walls, white cupboards, two pillows on my bed, the birds starting to sing for morning. Spring is tentatively tiptoeing in, bruised by all the snow and rain. But the ‘there’ creeps in too. […]
Building up
9th April, 2013 0
It is always easier to tear down than to build up. I watch my little boy playing with his Lego. “And then this goes on top of here,” he explains, “and this one, and this one.” He carefully selects each brick: red on top of blue, two to match the other side, […]
Bits’n’Blogs (March 2013)
8th April, 2013 4
My ‘What I’m into’ post was so long for March what with all the hair products – (I’m still amused by my newly-discovered fashion prowess!) – that I didn’t have time to mention the best of the blog posts for March. Here are some of my favourites: For the broken and hurting: Seth Haines […]
