Damian Thompson has recently used the Daily Telegraph to highlight the difference between blogging and journalism.

"... medical science has no great difficulty explaining what’s wrong with most people diagnosed, or self-diagnosed, with ME. Their brains create a debilitating fatigue and pain that often correlates with certain personality traits. ( Read more... )

ARGH. I feel ok otherwise, but today I am having one of my "I really can't see" days. I don't know quite how to quantify that. It's as if someone's dropped milk in my eyes. And they sting, as if they've got chilli in them. And looking at things hurts, the way trying to look at the sun hurts. All the time they're open, I'm getting powerful ( Read more... )

"Morning", as they say, "has broken ( Read more... )

I just went out to run an errand and what I have now come to think of as "The Marionette Thing" happened. Which is to say, there I am, in the middle of congratulating my opposite neighbour on his ongoing recovery from a hip replacement (OMG irony alert!), and suddenly I'm on the tarmac with my face actually resting on the actual kerb. I cannot ( Read more... )