It’s been a few weeks since my last post. The world is still very challenging, with the ever changing restrictions in place, to protect us from the coronavirus. As our country starts to open for business and people flock to beaches and bars; families are still apart and waiting patiently for permission to embrace. Black Lives Matter protests have taken …
The Battle Within
Been feeling like a failure of late. Just putting that out there. Lockdown has heightened these emotions. I’m feeling a bit of a useless article. In the immediate, I feel like I can’t help more people or contribute to the greater effort. Since the restrictions have come in, I’m doing even less. I don’t even shop for grocery supplies; my …
Meh Moments
We are currently enjoying the last day of complete lockdown. From tomorrow, some schools return; markets and car showrooms reopen and members of the public are allowed to socialise in small groups of 6. Still socially distant though, no hugs and kisses. We are only allowed to meet outside, no home visits. It’s tentative, it’s conditional but it’s a …
Rainbows
As I write this, we are supposed to be celebrating Easter and yet we are all very far from jubilant. The Coronavirus is still centre stage in our lives. Everywhere is quiet, apprehensive and desolate. We are allowed out, once per day, for exercise. When exercising, we are to remain local to our homes and only exercise with people we …
Hope in Quarantine
Well I didn’t mean to take a month off from my wonderful and cathartic blog but that appears to have been the case regardless. I quite like March. The month of daffodils and the much needed hope of spring; peeping out from behind the clouds of a chilly dark winter. March represents my RP anniversary. The 12th of March to …
It’s Good to Talk
I love how this slogan is thrown around now. Like it’s the only way, people who are struggling or who are dealing with overwhelming situations, will be able to get through it. Sometimes it does indeed help, granted but not always. Talking is great but our choice of conversation partner needs to be greater. I always think of Bob Hoskins …
#Disability
Times may be changing when it comes to talking disability. Amazing individuals, groups and companies are making waves, pushing boundaries and showing the world that ‘This Girl Can’ every single day. Having grown up in a world before this time, I find myself struggling with the label. Being born with facial palsy, I learned first hand and from day one, …
Feeling January
Several people have asked me, how I am recently. My response has been the same; “I’m feeling very January”. January blues are a thing. The buzz of a new year with new possibilities, is very much in the background, to my foggy and rather ‘meh’ foreground. ‘Don’t spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down …
Young At Heart
There is no such thing as an adult… just grown kids. Well that explains a lot. I have often wondered where my mental maturity is. As a kid, I was surrounded by grownups. Confident and calm folk that just had it together. Their childhoods were a distant memory. They understood the world around them. They never …
Well Hello 2020
Happy New Year all! I hope it has started well for you and any resolutions you have made, are still firmly in place. Usually around this time, I would be falling off whatever wagon I decided to jump on. I didn’t make any resolutions this year. However, I was moved by this advice over the festive period: ‘Evaluate what you …