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Making Room: Week 1 - Scaffolding, Shed Building & Farewell to the Garage

So by now we have hired the builders, achieved full structural design, drawings in hand and planning permission granted (twice – because of an adjustment to Poppy’s disabled access door). We now knew the existing structure/foundations were good to build on too. In this update:Garage clearanceShed installationLoft boardingScaffolding installationPreparing for a wheelchair-accessible extension for…

We bought our “forever home” in 2019. By the end of that same day, Emma had given birth prematurely, our lives had completely changed, and the years ahead would bring disability, lockdowns, wheelch…

Under Construction: Our Home Extension & Renovation

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Every Upwards Trend Has a Dip

Someone said something to me last week that I haven’t quite been able to shake. “Every upwards trend has a dip.” He wasn’t talking about the stock market.He was talking about life. Which is interesting, because I’ve spent the last year feeling less like I’m on an “upwards trend” and more like I’ve fallen off the graph entirely and landed in a separate spreadsheet labelled Miscellaneous…

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Rain.

Little water vapour,Thousands of feet in the air.Floating amidst a cloud,Of gravity, it does not care.Should it fall, it does not matter,Little droplets feel no pain.It wants to come and meet you,But we just hate the rain.

#everyday moments #mindfulness #mingo #mingolife #nature #observation #poem #poetry #prose poetry #rain #reflections #short poem #weather

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10 Days of Pain: Part 5 - But where do we go from here?

This is the final part of a very personal series. Grab a drink and settle in. **** Part One: There’s Nothing We Can Do To Fix This Part Two: Open Wide! Part Three: I Can’t Sleep Part Four: Dr. Pain & The Ward of Strange Gentlemen ****It’s been a while since I last wrote.Christmas happened to all of us, and calling it chaotic would be generous. It wasn’t all bad news, however, as there has…

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10 Days of Pain: Part 4 — Dr Pain & The Ward of Strange Gentleman

Previously, on Stephen vs His Nervous System… I had survived the most magnificent snoring I’ve ever experienced.I did not survive sleep. The pain’s back, the lights are on,and I’m about to meet a man called Dr Pain. — — — The next morning delivered another quote that would stay with me. I did, eventually, manage a few hours of sleep. As Day 4 rolled around, the curtains were thrown open by…

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10 Days of Pain – Part 3: I Can’t Sleep

I can’t bloody sleep. Presently, it’s taken me a while to write Part 3. At this rate, even George R.R. Martin will finish his next book before me. Since Part 2, nights have mostly been me, wide awake at 3 or 4 in the morning, doing interpretive pain-dancing while clutching my jaw. I wait for the codeine (or on VIP nights, the morphine), to swoop in. My reluctant hero with terrible…

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We just took out Poppy's feeding tube!

For 6 years, our beautiful daughter Poppy has had a nasogastric feeding tube.Six years. And today, it’s gone.Ever since she was born three months premature, Poppy has relied on that small tube running from her nose to her stomach.At first, it was for milk and water. Then, around age five, we managed to introduce mashed-up foods, but her swallow was still unsafe.Now, after months of hard work and…

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