On the first day of lockdownCovid meant for meA shortage of PPE. On the second day of lockdownCovid meant for meFree Covid tests,And a shortage of PPE. On the third day of lockdownCovid meant for meQR Codes,Free Covid tests,And a shortage of PPE. On the fourth day of lockdownCovid meant for meWage subsidies,QR Codes, Free … Continue reading The Twelve Days of Covid
It was about the time of my sixtieth birthday that my MS started to get twitchy. It was as though it were awakening after a long sleep. Neurologist visits and scans would doubtless need to be done to find out what’s at the bottom of this but I’ll write about that in future posts. For … Continue reading Working Around MS
I bought myself a Fitbit recently. I was a bit late to the fitness tracking party but I finally succumbed because I wanted to set myself some personal goals for tracking my physical activity (I nearly said “daily movements” there but that would probably necessitate a totally different device!) Basically all I wanted it for … Continue reading The Creepy Side of Fitness Trackers
It’s been a very strange day in Christchurch today with many people, like me feeling a bit shell-shocked and discombobulated. I feel as though I’ve fallen asleep and woken up in a place that is not my home. The outpouring of solidarity and unity with our Muslim community along with the show of global support … Continue reading The Day After the Christchurch Mosque Attacks
Weirdly enough there are a lot of things that I’m grateful for about having MS and today was one of those times. My MS symptoms tell me things today that I knew before but chose to ignore in the past. And now I can’t. I know I can’t party on until the wee hours. I … Continue reading Christchurch, NZ – Friday 15 March 2019
Five years ago I accidentally created the Diamond Harbour Community Facebook Page. What I was really trying to achieve was to group my Facebook friends together so that we could post about local things without getting our wider Facebook friends involved. It started off with about a dozen people and now has over 1500 members. … Continue reading Diamond Harbour Facebook Group – 2018 in Review
I find traipsing around a supermarket for any length of time a bit of a challenge with multiple sclerosis. Then you’ve got the whole business of waiting in a queue draped over a trolley which has now become a quasi-walking frame. So I’ve given the weekly shop away in favour of short supermarket trips during … Continue reading It’s in the Bag
Firstly, thanks to Amanda at Walk a Myelin* My Shoes or nominating me for the Sunshine Blogger Award. Although I’ve had this blog up for a while, I’ve only recently actually started writing anything on it and updating it, so I’ll find some nominees myself this weekend and come up with some questions. I’m looking … Continue reading Sunshine Blogger Award – Claire Jewitt
Today is the 29th of August which is the third anniversary of Wayne Dyer’s death and I wanted to share a couple of really strange coincidences which happened to me in the past few months that have a direct link to Wayne Dyer. When I was in my teens my mother gave me three books; … Continue reading Coincidence? I think not
Why is that nothing seems to divide our nation more than a General Election? In the aftermath of our recent 2017 election I am left feeling indescribably sad and not for the reasons that many might think. It’s not because the party I voted for didn’t win or because it looks as if we’ll have … Continue reading Bees in Our Bonnets
Claire Jewitt 