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Dales Walk, Friends and Fun Monday

21. July 2008

The aromatic Irish Coffee House brings us our Fun Monday subject today.
She wants to know what career we imagined we’d have as a child when we grew up, and if we could have any career today, what would it be?
My answers are going to be short and sweet because I want to ask all you [...]

Pulmonary Haemosiderosis

20. July 2008

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About 2 and a half years ago my friend got ill. She was breathless and coughing up blood. Pregnant at the time, it was put down to rupturing of small blood vessels in the lungs due to the strain of pregnancy, but she didn’t get better.
Earlier this year Marie became so [...]

Imaginary friend?

19. July 2008

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Miss M: “Will you hold this for me Mummy?”
I glance at Miss M. She is holding something tiny and invisible in her hand.
Me: “Erm, Ok M, what is it?”
Miss M: “Shhhhhhhh. You’ll wake him up.”
She gently places the little piece of imaginary something into my open palm then closes my [...]

Stream of nearly unconsciousness?

18. July 2008

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I think my brain has been infested by slug. Or it could be the 3 hours spent at Playland with Miss M’s friends after Nursery or the hour and a half at MacDonalds with Miss E’s friends after school because they broke up for the summer today…but it’s probably the slug.
Maybe I have caught [...]

When plug holes attack

17. July 2008

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It’s funny how you can be down one day and then up the next.
Not funny like a monkey doing a little dance then running off with some rich blokes sandwiches is funny…
And not funny like Vic Reeves or Tommy Cooper or Stephen Fry or Eddie Izzard is/are funny…
And not funny like a small badger playing [...]

Thank you

16. July 2008

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Thanks for all the lovely comments yesterday everybody. I am full of warm squidginess and feeling loads better. Just a quickie post tonight as I plan to sleep the sleep of the very sleepy person who has had some sleep sandwiches and is now off to bed. So I will leave you [...]

Oh woe is me

15. July 2008

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As some of you will know I stopped working as a Special Educational Needs Teaching Assistant in 2006 due to depression. I won’t say that I had a break down, it didn’t quite get that far, but I stopped being able to function as I had been doing. My mask didn’t just slip, [...]

Fun Monday Birthday Bash

14. July 2008

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Fun Monday today comes from the wild and wonderous IamwhoIam at Dungarees Ablaze (Hope those adjectives are ok. )
She says;
“..lets hear about your favorite “Birthday”, it needn’t be your actual birthday just a birthday celebration. You can use one you planned, one you attended, one you crashed, just a fun time for [...]

The voice of doom

13. July 2008

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My niece ME is 4 years old. As she is 8 months older than Miss M she asserts she is the big girl on an almost daily basis and at times talks to Miss M like she is the wise maiden aunt who has led a long life and seen much of the world.
On [...]

Mosaic Me

12. July 2008

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Last night I didn’t get to sleep until about 4am. I blame these ladies. Today has thus far, been crazy. First Ingenious Junior’s party, then deliver Miss M home, then deliver Miss E to school for her performance, then shopping, then watch performance with Holl and Queen of Hearts, then goodbyes and [...]