The trick to recovery is to recognise it as a process. The energy flows back and it’s so tempting to think ‘I’m fine now I will now do ALL THE THINGS’ and queue collapse of course. I’m back to running, even properly excercising thirty minutes a day, which should, eventually, assuming I’m right about where … Read More

I could see it coming a mile off. All along my facebook feed I was watching it get closer and closer and then finally Goat nominated me. The first time I saw it I didn’t like it, it was an American friend of a friend who’d challenged my friend and it left me with a … Read More

I was very happy last year that they figured out what was wrong with me and made me better. Thing is, recovery isn’t a binary state (unrecovered/recovered) it’s a bloody process and right now I’ve done too much, I’m beginning to lose my footing and I need to stop and get a grip and get … Read More

Weasel and I are headed up into the Lakes – cannot express how I am looking forward to our weekend.

Last year I moved on from ‘I want to be a writer’ to ‘I am a writer’, not due to anything suddenly being published but due to the fact that I write. Also partly due to the fact that with the help of Quiet Mike I’ve actually deliberately given some writing to someone else for … Read More