I’ve mentioned in a previous post that as a child I had a biting tic. I mainly bit myself but sometimes other people. A few years ago it resurfaced briefly with a slight twist – I’d bite the skin on the back of my hand and tug on it.…

I had an appointment earlier with a new Tourettes specialist who’ll be taking over my care. I took Fat Sister, who’s a doctor, with me. This was extra useful because, after the meeting, we were able to talk things though from a medical as well as sibling perspective.…

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been singing my, “I’m a baby” song. The full lyrics are:

“I’m a baby,
You’re a baby,
Poke a baby,
Bank a baby.”

This has been amusing many of my friends, particularly Leftwing Idiot who sings along.…

The organisation I work for runs three different projects. This means I’ve got lots of keys. I regularly need to show people – important funders or partners for example – around the projects, and that means a lot of unlocking and locking of doors.…

Tonight I went to the Royal Albert Hall to represent the projects I work for at the RockCorps gig.

As I went in, the security woman checking my bag asked if I had anything sharp in it. I said “No. But I’ve got a knife, a Christmas card for my mum, a dog and a bomb.”…

This isn’t going to be the blog entry I’d planned to write.

I’ve unexpectedly been left feeling sad and undermined by something that happened a little while ago. I’d had a great evening out with Laura and was just getting home on the bus.…

I’ve had a great day. It wasn’t exceptional in any grand way, it’s just that I‘ve been quieter and stiller than I’ve been in a long time. I still ticced a lot but my they were noticeably less intense. It reminded me of a day that Greg Story describes in the BBC documentary ‘I swear I can’t help it.’…

This morning as I was walking back to the office with Left Wing Idiot, who’s working as my support worker, we came across a dead squirrel lying in the road. A vehicle must have hit it very recently because the blood still looked fresh.…

It’s Leftwing Idiot’s birthday so I could at last give him his present. I bought it ages ago, and since then I’ve regularly, but involuntarily, told him what I’d got for him. I gave it to him last night and he opened it this morning.…

I stayed in Birmingham last night and slept on a friend’s floor between Leftwing Idiot and our mate Chiv. They’d both DJed at the event last night. Leftwing Idiot asked how much I was likely to tic during the night. I couldn’t tell him because it’s been a while since I slept in the same room as anyone else.…