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Ode to a Sheepdog

15th
December
2012

Last night we had our work Christmas party at and it was utterly lovely! We had an amazing meal cooked in the kitchen of our new building and nearly all 39 of the staff team sat down and ate together… read more

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The Joy of Hotknives

25th
September
2012

This time last month I was relaxing in a field with a lot of good friends at the Shambala festival. On the Saturday morning I met Captain Hotknives and his guitar. He started playing and almost immediately… read more

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Let Me Entertain You

18th
September
2012

The second episode of Tourettes: Let Me Entertain You aired on BBC3 last night. It’s a three-part documentary, hosted by Reggie Yates, documenting the experiences and musical talents of six young people with… read more

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Hello World

25th
April
2012

If you’ve been following the blog recently you’ll know it’s been a hectic time for me recently with all the sudden media interest in Touretteshero. Today, the message is about to go global via an interview with… read more

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Dialogue

20th
January
2012

Yesterday evening I had an unusual conversation with Karl James. In 2001, Karl started the Dialogue Project and since then he’s had lots of interesting conversations with a wide variety of people on all sorts of subjects.… read more

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Ticcing Off

9th
January
2012

While yesterday’s comment about Tourettes by David Cameron created a lot of debate in the media, at first little of the coverage included the views of people with Tourettes. Fellow blogger Nicky Clark whose daughter… read more

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“Shake and Vac and Put the Best Bears Back.”

16th
December
2011

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how – unusually during a ‘ticcing fit’ – I’d had a sudden and sustained burst of vocal tics. Bunny wrote… read more

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Lost for Words

11th
November
2011

It took me six minutes to say this:

Lost for Words

‘I’m having trouble speaking at the moment. My muscles are fine but speaking is difficult. This is more than just tics interrupting speaking. The sentence is fully… read more

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When I’m Happy and I Know It …

1st
November
2011

I was in an exceptionally cheerful mood when I woke up this morning. I washed and dressed and did a bit of work at the kitchen table, singing tics all the time. Ticced songs are… read more

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Wow!

28th
October
2011

Here we go
Yesterday we launched this website and last night we celebrated by holding our launch party. In the cab on the way to the venue I started having a hard… read more

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