In December, after a couple of months of health improvement, I got quite suddenly much worse, ending up severely ill for 5-10 days, feeling like I was more than halfway to dead This blog is about that experience. I am writing this in early January, recovered from the worst of it, though still very limited and fragile.
Or: How training parkour has helped me manage being crippled Our entire existence is movement, in one form or another. Yet most of it is unconscious, without attention, just happening as our routine patterns. But how about if we treated the everyday as a movement practice? Recording: I recorded this post so that if you […]
Content note: talks about death, disability, chronic illness, exercise and fitness I thought I would write a blog post about my experience with Long Covid, which is still debilitating and significantly affecting my life 8 months after infection. I *think* I am still gradually and slowly improving, though it may also have reached a plateau […]
This is a recipe for some cookies which are low FODMAP, gluten free and dairy free, and hit the spot just right for me. Since developing some food intolerances (FODMAP), my food has been much more limited. With no wheat, that’s meant no cake or pastries; occasionally gluten free flour replacements can work but it’s […]
We face two choices in this life: trying or not trying. I almost wrote, trying or giving up, except that not all ‘not trying’ is giving up. Sometimes it isn’t worth the risk, sometimes we don’t have the time or energy. So instead it’s about the choices. There’s a scene in Batman Begins between Wayne […]
Without You, There Is No Us I recently read the book Without You, There Is No Us by Suki Kim, which is about her time teaching in North Korea. Kim went undercover as a teacher in the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, which is the only place in North Korea with foreign teachers. The […]
If we think of changing the world, and how big the changes which are needed are, it feels like a huge undertaking. It feels impossible: from where we are now, how could we possibly get there? I often feel this, as I think so many of us do. However: there is one thing that makes […]
‘Might is Right’ is the description of power as fact, and that power as fact triumphs over justice and what might actually be Right. It’s the brutal reality of power, and sometimes also the normative justifications that attempt to legitimise and perpetuate such a situation. An easy example is the school bully who beats up […]
The Government recently published their Covid ‘roadmap’ setting out what their plan for lifting restrictions over the coming months. I thought I’d write this blog post as a way of thinking through how I think and feel about it, partly to get them out of my head. If you want to live in sunny optimism, […]
In recent political events, we’ve seen demands for the removal of the Prime Minister’s top advisor and chief of staff, Dominic Cummings, as well as open speculation that Matt Hancock could be made to be the fall guy for the Government’s failings in dealing with coronavirus. But there’s another possibility: that Boris Johnson himself gets […]