I went to Leftwing Idiot’s flat tonight to watch a film, but fell asleep. When I woke up he said “You squawk in your sleep.”

Leftwing Idiot and King Russell enjoyed several competitive rounds of their favourite game this evening: Tourettes Bingo.

This involves them secretly choosing tics and marking them off as I say them, until someone gets a full house. There are several versions of this game and sometimes they play without me even realising.…

I’ve been to an amazing exhibition with Leftwing Idiot’s mum, Liz. It’s the Museum Of Everything, a temporary exhibition in Chalk Farm. It was the last day and the queue to get in was massive, stretching a long way down the street.…

“This vehicle is talking about you.”

Leftwing Idiot and I went to see the film we couldn’t get into last week in Greenwich. This time it was in Brixton, and the film, The Prophet, was great and I’m glad we persevered with trying to see it. It’s French with subtitles.…

It’s Thursday, team meeting day at work. Both the team manager and consultant were away so my boss’s boss, the head of CAMHS, came down to chair the meeting. I mentioned him a couple of weeks ago when he’d pulled me up for whistling at an away-day.…

I was walking through the underpass at Elephant and Castle earlier and an old man started talking to me. He asked what was wrong with me and I told him I had Tourettes. Before we parted, he asked my name and whether it was OK if he prayed for me.…

For the last seven years I’ve had a fairly constant whistling tic. It’s changed a bit over time with no noticeable improvement to my tunefulness. Today I realised it’d gone, not completely and I suspect not permanently, but I felt a bit odd when I realised I wasn’t doing it any more and even odder that it’d taken me several days to notice.

It’s snowing again. I went out in trainers instead of boots, which was a mistake for two reasons: firstly my trainers aren’t waterproof. Secondly, and slightly more alarmingly, I’ve developed a leg-kicking tic when I’m walking which meant they kept flying off my feet.…

It’s freezing. Leftwing Idiot and I headed to Greenwich to see a film that someone at work had recommended. The film was sold out when we got there so we warmed up in a restaurant and had some noodles instead. We sat at a long shared table.…