Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
This is my last blog until the New Year and, as tends to happen, time and energy have run away from me. I shall sign off…
Memories on my windowsill …
I am so sad at present, finding it hard to settle my mind. Monday, I received a call telling me of the shockingly unexpected death of…
Assuming the ‘right’?
A couple of weeks ago, I read ‘Until You’ve Wheeled a Mile In My Shoes …’ by Mik Scarlet in the Huff Post. He argues cogently,…
The Raw Beauty Project
Sixteen years of rolling my heels on wheels and still I am surprised – occasionally and pleasantly – by a really upbeat project normalising women and…
Clive James in the New Yorker
This beautiful poem, Japanese Maple, by Clive James, in The New Yorker, has been going around Twitter. Amazing how illness and the imminence of death seem to…
Romantic Moments, not …
From Tickld, it’s been doing the rounds on Twitter: 20 Worst Romance Quotes Ever. If, like so many of us homebound types, you are an avid…
Probably Nothing …
As anyone who knows me is aware, I love me some humour with my misery. And, I am always drawn to others who respond in the…
Anger Management
Earlier this week, I read via BBC Ouch: No More Mr Nice Guy: When Disabled People Get Nasty by Laurence Clark and my heart sank. I…
Stiletto Wheels 