I woke up this morning feeling very refreshed after a long and satisfying sleep. It wasn’t completely uninterrupted as I did have a couple of ‘ticcing fits’ during the night. Despite that I had one of the longest and deepest sleeps I can remember in a long time.…

I woke up this morning sandwiched happily between Leftwing Idiot and Nez. It wasn’t a beautiful dawn chorus that woke us but the low roar of construction vehicles and the bustle of the builders who are building a new accommodation block for the pub where we’d parked for the night.…

I’ve taken a few days off work to join Leftwing Idiot and our friend Nez on a trip to a part of Wiltshire that’s jam-packed with ancient and mythic places. There are white horses carved into the chalky hills, hundreds of burial mounds rising up out of the fields, and at Avebury the largest stone circle in Europe.…

This evening I ticced a tricky question, “If you had four words for the rest of your life, what would they be?” and I went on to answer my own question with a series of unusual choices:

“Teapot, Sex, Apricot, Lego.”…

One of my regular tics at the moment is, “Women” which comes out in a strange, slightly robotic voice. Occasionally it gets extended to, “I love women,” and that’s what I ticced this afternoon at work. One of my colleagues absentmindedly added, ‘Me too!’…

The other day I mentioned the tic-like labels Leftwing Idiot made when he was a child. The sentences he created were a surreal mix of ideas, just like many of my tics. He really enjoys the strangeness of tics, and these labels show his love of unusual language goes back a long way.…

Leftwing Idiot was wearing his Adidas sweater this evening when we were having dinner with Poppy. I’ve written before about my obsession with touching the trefoil logo with three fingers, something that’s commonly known at the castle as giving it a boofing.…

My friend Chiv’s been staying with me for a few days. He’s a musician and each evening he’s been practicing the trumpet, the guitar and singing, filling the castle with amazing music.

Last night as we were winding down for the evening he sang an old R&B song by Amos Milburn.…

Baclofen, the new drug I’m taking, comes as a liquid. My arm tics make taking it with a teaspoon impossible so I use a syringe. It’s a syringe without a needle so I can just squirt the medication straight into my mouth.…

Leftwing Idiot’s parents live very near the hospital where I go to see my consultant and we popped in to see them before my appointment there this afternoon.

Leftwing Idiot’s dad showed me some messages that Leftwing Idiot had made with a label maker when he was a child.…