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Learning to Adapt

07 May 2012
Posted by Nick  
I have been continuing my attempts to rejuvenate some very old rush bottom chairs. Two weeks ago saw a disastrous occurrence. I had been scraping off the old varnish when I took an unexpected fall of the MS variety. I landed with unerring accuracy straight across the one I was working on. It broke my fall, which was useful, but in the process...
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Some Old Chairs

12 April 2012
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The bare boards of the small functional room ware their age well. In the air a lingering scent, unaccountable like some old Victorian house. There is nothing modern here. Its 1964 and one frosted glass window depicts the word ‘Second Class’ spelt out backwards in a satisfyingly curved but somewhat forlorn pattern. It brings in a diffuse light...
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Making sense of it all.

29 March 2012
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An experience I had last week reminded me of the complexity of fully understanding our own situation after a diagnoses of MS. These days I meet and know quite a few people who have MS and in every case the way this has affected that person is different. The way it has progressed is also very different. I recall myself, on being diagnosed and...
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Kinky Knickers

23 March 2012
Posted by Nick  
If you haven't been watching the Mary Portas TV program on channel 4 called 'Mary's Bottom Line' I would strongly recommend you give it a look. It follows the story of her struggle to revive part of the garment industry in Britain and improve the aspirations of those young people who have been taken on to produce quality affordable...
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Worst Day Ever

22 March 2012
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I could not resist having a heading titled 'Worst Day Ever' while the previous posts description remains 'Best Day Ever'.

Truth is I am not good, but am laughing myself at the very thought that its certainly not a bad day! The sun is shining through a light sea mist and here on the coast the air remains cold. Tucked up behind...
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It's not always possible to stay up beat about your own situation. I feel sometimes that I may give a false impression that I am always a very positive person. After all it is clearly an important strategy to pursue all these avenues of 'positivity.' Yet thinking about that, I realise there are times when we all get very annoyed by...
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Ability Calibration

08 March 2012
Posted by Nick  
It's late evening now and looking out towards the sea, between the houses, and behind our laburnum, I see an inky dark sky with it’s brightly lit full moon. It looks like another cold night lies ahead. A small price to pay for the beautiful sunny spring day we have just had here today, in the east.

I’m in one of those peculiar ‘spaces’...
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Looking for Potential

05 March 2012
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It's raining hard outside today and last night I could hear the wind battering the West side of our house. A good day to talk of other things.

I was lucky as a child that my Grandmother lived only a short distance away from a local stream called the Ant. I suspect it may not be the reason the river goes by that name, but it does possess many...
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Laughter in the shower

04 March 2012
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Looking back I suddenly realise a fair chunk of time has elapsed since I last wrote, then I had written something on 'Dukkha' that's simply a rather different way of talking about 'suffering' Today as I sit in front of the computer with my cup of coffee at hand and a few pains shooting up and down my right hand and arm it...
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Dukkha

19 February 2012
Posted by Nick  
On Wednesday, as normal, I attend seated exercise class. One part consists of foot tapping. I tap my foot as best I can, willing my brain to open up new ways of finding better motor control. To an extent this works, the brain does indeed posses a myriad of alternative paths, different ways of 'doing.' No cure, simply making the best of...
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