This Is My Blog

With the DLA crud dealt with, I've been just taking it easy, relaxing, trying to recoup some energy, that sort of thing. You remember I ...

All the DLA stuff is now compiled, copied, and sent. Well, I say "all". They never did get round to sending me the copy of the med...

... no, not that benefits rubbish, I'm talking about the important things in life. Kingdom of Loathing , a game to which Steve, myself, ...

It arrived in the post this morning, four sides of A4 that it took them 14 days to print out and put in an envelope for me. This supports my...

Firstly, KNITTING - the needle case is complete! My sewing is not the neatest in the world, but I would describe it as "passable"....

According to my records... On the 24th May I was turned down for DLA. On the 2nd June (a Saturday) I received the letter telling me this. On...

All pockets complete! Originally uploaded by girl_of_bats All the knitting is now done for the knitted knitting needle case. My fa...

My stress has wound down several more notches, thanks to fantastic support from Steve, and from my family and friends here, and also (I real...

Ladies and gentlemen, the screwups have commenced! The DLA unit have sent me a set of irrelevant forms - the ones for if you are reporting a...

The 28 days to respond are no longer ticking, and I have some space in which to get myself packed up, back home, and mentally prepared for t...

This morning I got a phone call from my mum. In a wonderful piece of timing with me being on holiday (so I don't have my file) AND it be...

Yarn! Originally uploaded by girl_of_bats Yesterday was a nice day. Steve and I went to the Victoria Coffee House on Warwick Stree...

At Steve's at the moment. I woke up this morning at about 7:30am in quite a bit of pain, and also rather hungry. I spent half an hour st...

On May 9th I mentioned a number of half-written posts I had and asked which ones I should make into full posts. The answer seemed to be ...

This made me very, very, very happy.

First, a knitting update. I haven't stopped, I've just not been doing anything I felt was worth blogging about. I'm working on a...

The weather seems to have given me a bit of a knock so I haven't been about too much. I've been spending far more time than is healt...

Two days!! Two blasted days of doing only the bare minimum - convenience food, minimal washing-up efforts, damn near militarised regular bre...

A while ago I mentioned my concerns about how I am renewing my Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and they want a report from my GP, but my G...

Today is Blogging Against Disablism Day . I wanted to write something for it, unfortunately I just haven't been able to. Even when my mi...