During Easter playscheme a child I work with pinched one of my gloves and took it home. He’s been promising to return it ever since. Today, at last he did, freshly laundered by his mum.

My leg tics mean I walk in a way that looks quite unusual and dramatic and I frequently drop to the floor. Surprisingly, very few people who see this ask if I’m OK. I suspect this is because either I don’t look fazed by it or because the screeching noises and jerky movements of my tics put people off approaching.…

When I was sorting through stuff in the lair yesterday, I found a letter from my school to my parents written when I was 10. It followed an accident in which I’d injured my wrist throwing myself to the floor during musical bumps.…

The other day Leftwing Idiot said, ‘I’d love to have met you as a kid – what were you like?’ Today while we were sorting out mountains of paperwork at the lair, I was able to tell him what I was like, in the words of my primary school teachers.…

This evening I’ve had three lovely interactions with children and young people being thoughtful, caring and considerate towards me.

At work I talked to a seven-year-old girl who I’d not met before. While we were saying hello and introducing ourselves I explained that I have Tourettes.…

I was working today, running the Saturday session at the adventure playground. At the end of the afternoon the children come together for a snack and a drink. They are used to my ‘biscuit’ tic but it confused and amused many of them this afternoon when I announced that they needed to come and sit down for biscuits.…

In the queue at the Post Office this morning there was a boy of about eight in front of me with his mum. As usual I was ticcing a lot about biscuits. As the boy and his mum left he said, “Biscuit,” under his breath.…

While I was at work on Friday afternoon I took my gloves off to wash up. When I turned round one of them had vanished.

This morning I was on the gate, greeting children as they came in for the second week of Easter playscheme.…

This afternoon Ruth and I went for lunch with a family whose teenage son has Tourettes. His tics are similar in severity to mine and Ruth’s and although he’s met other people with Tourettes they’ve all had milder tics. I think it’s important to meet people whose experience is similar to your own.…

It’s one of the busiest times of year at work and today was the second day of our Easter Playscheme. The weather so far has been gorgeous and the projects are full of children enjoying the first sunny spell of the year.…