This evening while I was watching telly at home I started to tic vigorously, throwing my head back against the wall. Fat Sister and Ollie acted swiftly and simultaneously, grabbing cushions and thrusting them behind my head. Unfortunately their action was so well synchronised that the cushions collided and pushed each other out of the way, giving my head a clear un-padded path to the wall.…

Leftwing Idiot had been doing some DIY this morning and he’d left a saw on the table. I started ticcing, “I know where the saw is” to the tune of I Came, I Saw, I Conga’d.

I asked him to put the saw out of reach, but my tic kept on going and it didn’t stop even when he’d hidden it completely.

I went out to Surefire at Corsica Studios tonight with Leftwing Idiot, Poppy and some other friends. After a great night of heavy bass we got the number 12 bus home. Anyone who uses this bus regularly will know that whether it’s 4pm or 4am, it has a distinctly edgy vibe.…

Ruth has just told me about an interesting film project called @Random, produced by the Tourettes Syndrome Foundation of Canada. If you watch the film, you’ll see a different version from the one I saw. This is because the film is different for each person.…

“Now is the winter of our discontent…” becomes:

“This is the winter of your donkey doing headstands.”
“This is the winter of your backpack loving mum.”
“This is the winter of your baby eating sheep.”

Since I mentioned my new ‘keys’ tic the other day it’s got worse and I’m now saying it all the time. It’s not even making me laugh any more. In fact it’s very irritating.

It became even more annoying earlier when I lost my actual keys.…

I made another trip to the Apple Store this morning because my computer needs repairing. I handed it over to one of the geniuses to fix. They gave me an agreement to sign, and while I did this I ticced “South Park says no!”…

Ollie: “I would never leave a corkscrew out – I’m Tourettes safe.”

In the last few days I’ve done some things that I haven’t done independently for a long time:

I picked up a glass and had a drink.
I wrote down an address in my diary.
I shaved my legs.

This massive progress is thanks to the strategies I’ve learned during Habit Reversal Therapy.…

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.…