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The job advert for my Social Care Personal Assistant (PA) has been confirmed to run in a local paper next week, as well as to be put up at t...

I don't usually do memes but this one from Carie looked interesting. If you join in, please leave a comment so that I can read yours. T...

...uuurgh. I have Additional Lurgy in the form of a cold. Happily it's not the rotten sort of headcold that wimps try to insist is ...

... just a bit tired out. The New Year fireworks were a resounding success, with the only casualty being one of L's gloves which got sin...

I did this last year so I might as well do it this year too. Even though this time I haven't had any major life changes like moving hou...

That was a nice Christmas. Steve and I had four days off work together which hasn't happened since last Christmas, and that was less a h...

If you were here at this time last year, you'll know that I love Christmas . Last year Steve and I went back to Lowestoft to see everyon...

I'm sure many of the people who read this blog will have encountered the stories in the news about James Purnell's work for welfare ...

This weekend, Steve and I have mostly been nest-building. It started with someone giving us their old TV, and the unit it sat on. It was not...

A little song about Santa . First of all, a big thank you to all the people who left such supportive comments on my last, rather depressing,...

I had my interview this morning. It was basically the job I'd interviewed for back in the summer, same interviewers and everything. It l...

Did you ever have a couple of days when things just went... right? It started on Tuesday, worryingly enough with the laundry. Anyone without...

knitting and beach Originally uploaded by girl_of_bats I've been home for a while now. The week of holiday was very badly need...

So, this is my first proper holiday from work - a full week rather than the odd day. I'm in Lowestoft, staying with Pip and The Boy. Ste...

Finally, a response regarding the Remploy problems . My MP referred the matter to Anne McGuire, the erstwhile Minister for Disabled People. ...

Appeal was today. It went well. It was a bit daunting, but the panel made an effort to put me at my ease, asked sensible questions, and paid...

My Disability Living Allowance (DLA) appeal is next week. In an organisational sense, I'm well prepared for it. Steve has managed to get...

A few generic requests and pointers for online shoppers, on behalf of all those dispatchers out there who remember last Christmas and are fe...

As the esteemed blogger Scaryduck (I am not worthy, etc) recently observed, St Ebeneezer's Day - "the first day that Christmas dis...