I haven’t been very well for the last few days so yesterday morning I went to the doctor, supported by Poppy. We’d only been in the waiting room for a minute or so when a boy, aged about two and a half, made a beeline for us.…

On Friday night Claire and I went to a local pub for a quick drink. There’s a very big step to get in and just as we were preparing to tackle it I had a couple of bizarre conversations with two strangers, pretty much simultaneously.…

I’ve just read an article about Ben Gerrard, a Brighton man with Tourettes who was asked to leave a shop because of his tics. Ben had popped into a hardware shop after work to buy some tools when he was ordered to leave by the owner of the shop for ‘Making silly noises.’…

Last night Leftwing Idiot and I headed into town for a night of comedy at the Bloomsbury Theatre. Mixing Tourettes Syndrome and live performance can have unexpected and volatile results so I’m extremely careful in choosing what to go and see and where to go and see it.…

My tics rarely embarrass me, but yesterday one did. I caught myself by surprise during a normal day at work. Here’s how:

I was in the office – everyone was busy so the atmosphere was quiet and concentrated. My regular tics punctuated the silence as always, but no one was taking any notice.…

I’ve just read a very well-written article that made me go ‘Yes, yes, that’s it!’ so many times you’d have been forgiven for thinking it was a new tic. But I wasn’t ticcing – it was just my reaction to a phenomenally clear piece of writing by Lisa Egan about the social model of disability.…

Poppy and I were out in town this evening, I was in my cumbersome replacement wheelchair and Poppy was pushing me along with some considerable effort. Out of nowhere a man using a mobility scooter shot past. As he did so he grinned and called back, ‘Get a motorised one!’…

Yesterday afternoon Ruth, Claire and I took the train to Brighton. The rain slapping against the windows suggested it wasn’t a good day for going to the seaside but fortunately, by the time we arrived the sky was clear and Brighton was lit by a gentle wintery sunshine.…

It’s my fitiversary. Exactly a year ago today I woke up having a ‘ticcing fit’, and I’ve had at least two a day ever since. As I got dressed this morning I reached for a pair of tracksuit bottoms, but immediately decided against them because they didn’t seem suitable attire for a fitiversary.…

Every day for over two and a half years I’ve written in this blog about my life with Tourettes Syndrome. When I started I worried that I’d run out of things to say, but I soon realised this wasn’t going to happen because my experiences are so varied –tough, surreal, and often very funny.…