Runnin On Empty

Hi, So things have been a bit erratic lately  and I didn't want you thinking I don't value your readership, or music follows.  I've always been humbled and felt blessed by your support and so I felt I owed you an apology and a little explanation as to what's going on. While I wear my arse on my sleeve with ease, my heart is a different matter, but here goes..... Nobody holds the licence to grief,   we've all experienced it or will do multiple times throughout our life, but it's  a personal thing, everyone has different tools and different coping mechanisms and when it comes to healing, be it physically or emotionally I've always been pants at it...its never been for  want of trying but I believe its just in our make-up, our DNA. While most kids at school got a verruca, put cream on it and it was sorted, I went through the whole pharmacy & still ended up with a tree growing out of my foot.  I had it cut out, then frozen out  ...

Good Morning, bring a cuppa and the whole freakin packet of biccies with you, you're gonna need them...ready? .........  Until recently I didn't have a dentist because as per usual, I couldn't find one to accommodate a few basic needs due to health issues, like not being able to lie completely flat because I can't breath. I don't don't know about you, but breathing comes in quite handy?  So last Sunday at midnight ,spitting poison with three infected back teeth, excruciating pain and a  red shiny fat face that had me resembling a Puffa fish I   found myself at Watfords A & E . There were only about five people waiting but a few had bought the whole family along for a jolly. Nobody could understand the wait when it was so quiet but for Nurses  strolling around, a few with an evident  chip on their shoulders. By 3am I was  shuffling uncomfortably on the  bright blue metal seat while a lady with  mental hea...

Good Morning, well as some of you know, due to changes at the Watford Observer and the constant problems I was having regards publishing the Column each fortnight and just the total lack of  respect. It will now be published here for the time being.  I want to thank you all for your messages of support, its been amazing and humbling, there's been hardly any readers lost and considering it was based on a local news site, it's still very much global, with readers from New Zealand, Canada, U.S.A, China, & Egypt to name a few, so thank-you and I hope you'll  continue to enjoy it?   So, I've still managed to avoid owning a Smartphone, It's not that I'm against technology, I'm against the behaviour it seems to produce in folk.  I'm an old school kinda girl and I can't help but notice our streets and cafes are resembling the living dead, people of all ages with their heads down, no connection to life whatsoever, and with the latest Pokemon game t...

Good Morning, for those that didn't see my announcement on social media last night, unfortunately the Watford Observer have let me down yet again, its become a regular occurrence that I find highly disrespectful and something I'm no longer prepared to accept . In the latest move, having removed the Columnist section of the newspaper for the second time in a month, when I went in last night to proof read the column i'd spent a fortnight working on, they'd also  removed my admin page, which meant I couldn't even go in to retrieve all the work.  But never one to roll over i've decided to stay up tonight  and start putting it all together again  and publish it this morning on here instead and I hope you will still enjoy it?  So, are you ready?........Ironically this week it's about Stress?...... I saw a wonderful quote this week “ I Stress about Stress before there’s even Stress to Stress about”  I’m sure that’s true for...

Hi, there's no easy way to start this other than to say I've been being bullied since February and it's had a terrible detrimental affect on my health, I've been trying to fight back and despite poor health & not getting anywhere I'll be damned if I'm going to be pushed over the edge and I will not lay down and roll over. I wasn't going to make this public but if it can help even one other person to not feel alone or to not give up then it will be worth it. You might be wondering who this ass of an individual is that has hounded me to the point that  a few weeks ago I was physically sick from all the stress?  But it's not an individual, it is in fact the Government's appointed Health assessment team. I have numbered the sections of what's happened up to this week,  24 to be precise, to keep it simple to read, although you might still want  to grab a large coffee and some biccies?... 1.  As many of you know, My main conditions are  ...