For the last few weeks, Fat Sister and I have been doing early morning yoga with our friend and teacher Giedre. I thought yoga would be worth trying as a way to control my body, even if only for short periods of time.…
While a lot of my tics are random and funny, occasionally they come across as just rude or mean. It doesn’t happen very often but sometimes I’ll suddenly say something like “Bitch”, “Fuck you” or “Wanker.” These are much closer to the stereotype of Tourettes than the majority of my tics.…
At lunchtime I joined thousands of people on a march from Downing Street to the Israeli embassy to protest against the occupation of Palestine and the atrocities that took place on the convoy ships taking humanitarian aid to Gaza last weekend.…
Today we welcomed Karen into the Touretteshero family. Karen, who arrived in the UK on Friday from Costa Rica, is the fiancée of Brother Olly – a frequent visitor to the lair. Olly is Harry’s brother, not to be confused with her boyfriend Ollie.…
“Fingers on buzzards.”
Game over.
I went into the post office this morning and as I approached the counter I shouted,
“Hands up!”
Fortunately I’m a regular customer so this didn’t result in any panic buttons being pressed.
While I was out this evening a young man started to mimic the noises I was making. Bizarrely, he was so good at it that to begin with I was unsure whether it was me or not.
Once I’d worked it out I explained to the man that I had Tourettes.…
I must have fallen asleep with the TV on last night because I woke up this morning to a group of cheery people blaring out a hymn.
However hard I listened to the lyrics, all I could hear was, “Emailing my everlasting God.”…
I felt much better this morning, and this afternoon I went swimming with Harry. Harry’s a friend of ours who lives nearby with her boyfriend Ollie.
“Ollie has hair.”
It’s been baking hot in London so we went straight to Hampstead Swimming Ponds, complete with ducks, geese and moorhens.…
The title says it all. I’ve started saying “Da-da!” like a crap magician from the 1970s
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