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The daft neurologist ...

My book being published has been one of the happiest times in my life - though the process was certainly not without its trials  - and on the launch night I was in heaven. The room was packed, copies of my novel piled up beside me, my nephews - then just three and six - were sitting in the audience and walked up to the front with roses during the reading. That was the only actual launch event I did, I can't run around the country/world doing writerly things and that breaks my heart.
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The daft neurologist (and finding oafs in surprising places)

My book being published has been one of the happiest times in my life - though the process not without its trials  - and on the launch night I was in heaven. The room was packed, copies of my novel piled up beside me, my nephews - then just three and six - were sitting in the audience and walked up to the front with roses during the reading. That was the only actual launch event I did, I can't run around the country/world doing writerly things and that breaks my heart.
Still.

And you woul...

Hanging bath mats on the gate

It is eighteen weeks since my wonderful stepdad passed away - I can still not write the word 'died' beside him, in the same sentence. The raw shock and awfulness has faded, but I miss him terribly and still find myself in tears unexpectedly. I found some writing from three years ago, when I was visiting him and my mother:

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A Series of Unexpected Events - The Well Made Project

As part of London  Creativity and Wellbeing week 4-12 June, The Well Made Project is hosting an online exhibition called A Series of Unexpected Events. 




'Over the course of a week, this online exhibition on art and health will publish an artwork by a different artist each day. These distinct pieces, each conveying the impact of a life event, will gradually build up a wider narrative around wellbeing.'
The artists are here.
Extracts of my novel will be used at some point, I don't know...

Do No Harm by Henry Marsh; & another doctor turned writer (Suzanne O'Sullivan, who believes ME is psychosomatic) *updated

I'd read a couple of chapters of Do No Harm before I realised that Henry Marsh is the subject of Geoffrey Smith's 2007 award-winning documentary The English Surgeon, which I saw four or five years ago. The film first came to my attention because at that time a production company was planning to use my novel as the scaffolding of a documentary about ME and Geoffrey Smith was the director. (It fell through, as these things do, and the film seems now to have halted - and I am no longer in the tr...

Do No Harm by Henry Marsh; & another doctor turned writer (Suzanne O'Sullivan, who believes ME is psychosomatic)

I'd read a couple of chapters of Do No Harm before I realised that Henry Marsh is the subject of Geoffrey Smith's 2007 award-winning documentary The English Surgeon, which I saw four or five years ago. The film first came to my attention because at that time a production company was planning to use my novel as the scaffolding of a documentary about ME and Geoffrey Smith was the director. (It fell through, as these things do, and the film seems now to have halted - and I am no longer in the tr...

Do No Harm by Henry Marsh; & another doctor turned writer

I'd read a couple of chapters of Do No Harm before I realised that Henry Marsh is the subject of Geoffrey Smith's 2007 award-winning documentary The English Surgeon, which I saw four or five years ago. The film first came to my attention because at that time a production company was planning to use my novel as the scaffolding of a documentary about ME and Geoffrey Smith was the director. (It fell through, as these things do, and the film seems now to have halted - and I am no longer in the tr...

Jean Luc Godard's 'Film Socialisme'

I first tried to watch Jean Luc Godard's 'Film Socialisme' the Friday after the general election but I was just too upset to absorb the very disjointed narrative. It hurt my head. I tried again - twice - and finally last Saturday night was able to watch without being annoyed by the complete lack of plot. In the end, I came to love the images, they forgave the tedium. The subtitles, for some reason, kept disappearing and my French is far from fluent so I have to concentrate enormously without...

12 May: ME Awareness Day; and people who think they are made of glass (updated 17 May)

Today, 12 May, is ME Awareness Day. I have nothing new to say, nothing that I haven't said a million times before. My friend Catherine has written a brilliant post for mumsnet blog about life with ME, I urge you to read this if you want to understand more.

I also want to thank the ME Association for all they do for us.

 *Yesterday, I came across an article about people who think they are made of glass, it fascinated me, this exceedingly rare mental illness. I imagined 'glass delusion' suff...

12 May: ME Awareness Day; and people who think they are made of glass

Today, 12 May, is ME Awareness Day. I have nothing new to say, nothing that I haven't said a million times before. My friend Catherine has written a brilliant post for mumsnet blog about life with ME, I urge you to read this if you want to understand more.

I also want to thank the ME Association for all they do for us.

 *Yesterday, I came across an article about people who think they are made of glass, it fascinated me, this exceedingly rare mental illness. I imagined 'glass delusion' suff...