We’re on the eve of a big anniversary, but for me the end of this decade has special significance. Ten years ago, Touretteshero was born, since then everything’s changed, and I’ve become a radically different person. As the clock struck midnight on 31 December 2009, that incredible transformation was well under way.…
In just a few days time, Touretteshero will be turning ten!
That’s ten years of humour, creativity, events and… biscuits!
We’re obviously having a party and you’re invited.
The celebrations will take place at Battersea Arts Centre on Friday 7th February 2020 at 7.00pm.…
Yesterday I shared a festive drawing that I’d just completed on my iPad. As well as creating that drawing, I’ve also been using my iPad to make some Biscuit-Land-themed fonts.
One of my new fonts has a theme very close to my heart: lamp-posts.…
What a whirlwind the last few months have been both here in Biscuit Land and in the wider world! Over the last few days we’ve all been slowing down and unwinding ready for Christmas, and this is the first proper break I’ve had since I went to Spain with Chopin back in June.…
Back in 2015 Leftwing Idiot and I wrote a short relay play called Light Of My Life about the strange relationship I have with the lamp-post I can see from my bedroom window.
We mixed tics with chosen language without identifying which was which.…
Over the last decade, just existing as a Disabled Person has felt like a political act. Everything I do is directly affected by the political decisions of people who’ve never met me. There’s the social care support that means I can get washed and dressed in the morning, the Access to Work – support that’s enabled me to continue doing the job I love, the NHS-prescribed wheelchair that means I can move freely, and the medication and catheters that help me manage my pain and sleep at night.…
The other day, out of the blue, I got a call from a researcher asking if I’d be up for contributing to a radio segment on balancing work and Tourettes. I couldn’t do it because I was in rehearsals for ‘Not I’, which we are taking to New York in January.…
I woke from my rest this afternoon to the horrible news of a knife attack at London Bridge. I immediately checked in with my friends and family who could’ve been in the area, including King Russell whose work is nearby.
I’m a Londoner, this city is my home, and from as far back as I can remember, terrorism’s been something I’ve been aware of.…
As a child growing up in 80s London, I remember power cuts being a fairly regular occurrence. There was something scary but exciting about them, and I always knew where the candles were, just in case.
In my adult life they’ve been less frequent, and I definitely don’t have any candles on hand.…
The Festival of Minds and Bodies will be held at The Wellcome Collection this coming weekend 30th November 2019 – 1st December 2019.
Image Copyright – Benjamin Gilbert at Wellcome
Come and celebrate minds and bodies in all their different forms at a festival inspired by Wellcome’s new exhibition ‘Being Human‘.…
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