🐾 Featuring a tuxedo cat with burgundy-coloured fur … a rock and roll fantasy… and Diamond Harbour’s least qualified band making its live debut This story is part of The Diary of an Orange Cat — now available as a book and as a complete 24-episode podcast series. 👉 Listen to the podcast:The Diary of … Continue reading Live at the Point
Shivers, what a crazy couple of weeks I’ve had! I’ve been busy working out a programme of activities for the promotional events in England for Maisey Morley’s First Christmas. This is what I’ve got booked so far … I’ve planned out what activities I’d like to do with the children and as I love singing … Continue reading Maisey Morley Flies to England
It’s been really cold here today and I got so excited that the bell inside my woolly hat jingled because I know what it means when the weather gets really cold. It means that Santa and his reindeer are getting ready to load up the sleigh and deliver all the presents that the elves have … Continue reading Maisey Morley’s Very Early Christmas
I first came to know Maisey Morley, or Baby Julia as she was back then, when I travelled to England with my son Ben in mid 1991. Looking back I can’t help thinking it was quite a brave move on my part to travel half way across the world from New Zealand, just me and … Continue reading Maisey and Me
This is a link to a story I wrote for the MS Society of New Zealand and was published in their newsletter. Click to follow link Continue reading My MS, My Story – Claire Brown
🐾 Featuring an emergency announcement… a “Podium of Truth” … and a set of rules that takes an Abundance of Caution just a little too far This story is part of The Diary of an Orange Cat — now available as a book and as a complete 24-episode podcast series. 👉 Listen to the podcast:The … Continue reading An Abundance of Caution
I haven’t posted anything on here for a while as I’ve been too busy floundering around in a sea of bureaucracy in my efforts to get a temporary vaccine mandate exemption. I explained my situation to my GP by email, i.e. that I had been taking an MS drug which had the effect of lowering … Continue reading Exemptions, Extubations, Advertisements and Infusions
My promotional books and bookmarks have finally arrived in New Zealand! I was starting to think they would have arrived earlier if they’d have come on Santa’s sleigh with the reindeer but evidently Santa only has one scheduled flight per year and that doesn’t come until December so they had to come on an aeroplane. … Continue reading Meeting Maisey
Over the past few days I’ve been receiving numerous messages by text, email and in my letterbox from the Ministry of Health telling me that getting a COVID-19 vaccine is an important step I can take to protect my kaumātua and whānau from the effects of the COVID-19 virus. The message states that at this … Continue reading The Covid Vaccine and Auto-Immune Disease
I watched a You Tube TedTalk this morning entitled What Happens When You Have a Disease That Doctors Can’t Diagnose. It is presented by Jennifer Brea who suffers from ME (Myalgic encephalomyelitis), also known as CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome). A link to this video can be found here: Click here This woman’s plight really resonated … Continue reading Lost in a Medical Wilderness
