March is the end of the financial year and it’s fabled for being a time when lots of road works happen as Councils desperately use up their budgets before April 1st. This may or may not be the true, but Leftwing Idiot and I did pass a load of workmen digging up the road when we were out and about earlier.…

My colleague Stuart’s a gardener and amongst other things he keeps the nature garden at work looking beautiful. He’s very knowledgeable about the natural world and often shares his knowledge with both children and adults.

Stuart’s been helping me with my garden at the castle.…

I remember very clearly the first event for people with Tourettes I ever attended. It was a Tourettes Action meeting held one evening in a hall in central London. Up until then I’d never met or spoken to anyone else with Tourettes, and the only people I’d seen with tics were on TV.…

I saw an interesting post on Facebook a few days ago by a fellow wheelchair-user. She was describing all the things she stashes away down the back of her wheelchair seat, and how one of these things, a pin, had worked it’s way down from the seat onto her electric wheelchair’s battery.…

Over the last week or so I’ve had a cold, which has meant I’ve been having more ‘ticcing fits’ than usual. This in turn means I haven’t had any Piggy Days (days without fits). But I’m sure the mysterious Pig Fairy who customises these rubber dog toys and turns them into magical rewards has welcomed the break and the opportunity to catch up on the backlog.…

This is going to be a super short post, partly because I’m incredibly busy at the moment and party because, much to my annoyance, I’ve got a bit of a cold.

The main reason why I’m so busy is that I’m spending lots of time organising We Forgot The Lot!…

At the end of last month I shared the final installment of my World of the Zodiac tic-inspired prediction videos on YouTube, and in case you somehow missed them, you can watch all 12 here.

I thought that was going to be the end of it, until yesterday afternoon.…

I’ve written before about ‘Tourettes Mums’, the amazing mothers who fight tirelessly for their children who tic. But battling for your child day in, day out is physically and emotionally demanding. Here’s one mum, guest blogger Hayley Davies-Monk, describing her family’s struggle with their local school, and her search for positive aspects of their situation:

When Touretteshero asked me to write a guest post I was in a place where I just could not find any positives in our situation.…

As regular readers will know, verbal communication gets extremely tricky for me during a ‘ticcing fit’. I almost always lose the ability to speak and have to switch to a blinking system in order to communicate.

That being said, I do occasionally say some things during a fit, but they’re never very useful or relevant.…

It was beautiful in London yesterday, warm and spring-like. On the way home the cab took a slightly different route from normal and went through an area where I used to live about eight years ago. We were weaving through streets I knew well, and the time of day and the light were deeply reminiscent of that time too.…