Ruth and I have been asked by a TV production company to do some test filming because they’re interested in making a programme about Tourettes. I’m not completely sure about taking part but I agreed to do the test filming. It took place this evening – Ruth and I interviewed each other, each asking the other ten prepared Tourettes-related questions.…

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.…

Leftwing Idiot emailed me earlier. He’s uncovered a meaning for boska even if it is spelt differently than it was yesterday.

A new tic has established itself over the last few days. It’s not a real word, which as I’ve explained before, is unusual.

It sounds expressive though, and it ought to have a specific meaning, but I’ve ticced it in loads of contexts:

– when the bin bag split: “Bosca, Bosca Bosca!”…

Yesterday I was interviewed on As It Happens, a daily Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio show. It was aired in the early evening and at my request all my tics, which included some swearing, were left in because I felt it was important that my disability was heard uncensored.…

I’ve written before about how Laura’s complained that she doesn’t have a good tic name. Her married surname is Wareing and on her hen do my tics re-named her soon-to-be sister-in-law, “Two arms Wareing.” Her family still call her “Two arms,” and I have to admit to a touch of pride when I hear it used.…

Today didn’t go according to plan.

Thankfully, sixty-three years ago Sir William Beveridge’s plan for a national health service became a reality, and it was his NHS that came to my rescue today.

On my way to work, accompanied by Leftwing Idiot, I hurt my leg badly when it suddenly ticced at the bottom of the stairs.…

I’ve still not had a response to my letter to Transport for London. It’s been over two weeks since I wrote to complain about how I was treated by a member of the Underground staff at Old Street station.

Time to write again.

I was at a cash point this evening and a mother and her two children came and stood behind me in the queue. They were all chatting happily about where to go for an after school snack.

Both the children looked at me with curiosity.…

I have a new eye-rolling tic. Laura thinks it looks similar to the eye movements associated with people who have visual impairments. She’s named this new tic after the former Home Secretary. She calls it, “Blunkett Eyes.”