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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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...