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after a fashion, anyway.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Keeping warm

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So, I'm at home all day now, more or less every day. The thing I currently miss most about work is that it was warm . The weather has tu...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Pass the parcel

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So, in my path to become self employed, we were as far as: I need help from Access to Work in order to work, I need a business plan in order...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Paid time off

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I've worked my last afternoon at work, accepted my leaving card and gift voucher, spent a couple of hours sitting in a pub listening to ...
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Sunday, November 08, 2009

There is no pause button on my life.

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I feel that this is an appalling oversight on the part of the manufacturers. Still, what do we do? So, I've resigned from my job and the...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

All Change

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So, obviously the gods didn't feel like I had enough on my plate with the DLA/CAB stuff and the Social Services stuff and so on, because...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Stuck!

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As per the plan I detailed last time , today my PA and I set off for the local Citizen's Advice Bureau, to see about getting help with t...
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Monday, October 19, 2009

Frustration

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Following on from my previous post , I was not successful in contacting the Citizen's Advice Bureau this evening as per the advice on th...
Saturday, October 17, 2009

And then the rain came down

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Things have suddenly become Busy here in the land of Mary. Let's see, where were we up to... The Second Job has started and is going we...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Customer Service

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Slightly alarming letter from Social Services today, telling me that my Direct Payments Monitoring Return had been due at the end of July an...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Assisted Suicide

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I've tried to stay more or less out of this one, but today brought the news that the law on assisted suicide has been 'clarified...
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Fantastic Mr Fox

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Last night, Steve and I went with some friends to see Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs . Synopsis in a can: amateur scientist invents machi...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Second Job

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Yes, that's right, in these darkened times when there are many more jobseekers than jobs available , I'm being a greedy git and deci...
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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Not the WI

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Not a great success. Originally uploaded by girl_of_bats Today I decided to make chocolate cornflake cakes, having in my kitchen b...
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Thursday, August 06, 2009

DLA and AA under threat

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Yesterday Benefits and Work released some rather alarming news about the proposed axing of "disability benefits", such as DLA and...
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Wednesday

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Wednesday is my day off, but today, it really doesn't feel like one. What I'm about to say is going to sound really daft... Today I ...
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Saturday, August 01, 2009

Why it's a really good idea to have a geographical number

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After spending a couple of hours last night looking at different sorts of laptops (including Alienware - hardware: wow, prices: eep!), Steve...
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Friday, July 31, 2009

Retirement

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This may be the last post I write on this, my trusty laptop that I have had since before I started this blog. As such, I wish to pay it prop...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Breakfast

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I am many, many things, but a culinary wizard is not one of them . Part of that can be placed squarely at the door of chronic illness - the ...
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

This call is being charged at £2 per minute

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Today I woke up and looked through my BBC News twitterfeed to see the headline: "Patients should be charged £20 to see a GP in a bid to...
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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Book Review

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At the beginning of June, Tom Reynolds of Random Acts of Reality fame released his second book, More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of T...
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34-year-old knitter living with my husband, our son, and a robot vacuum cleaner.
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