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  • Blowing Hot & Cold

    Blowing Hot & Cold

    South Africa has such vast open skies that sometimes you can be fooled into thinking it is warm outside because you look out the window and the sun is out and it is so bright that the light could blind you. Then you leave the house dressed in a lightweight top and flip flops and…

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  • A Conversation With My Psoas

    A Conversation With My Psoas

    You may think that my Psoas is getting a lot of airtime lately and you would be right. It is quite literally my entire focus at the moment. I have read that some schools of thought are that the psoas is not a muscle at all, but rather an organ. Every day I log on…

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  • Moving With Intention

    Moving With Intention

    Last Saturday was very relaxed. I did interact with a newly identified bird, the Olive Thrush. It came down to the roof of the shed first and watched me for a few minutes. Then he dropped down onto the turf and started pecking at a piece of apple that I had given Poppy. Before she…

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  • The Sex Lives of Snails and my Psoas

    The Sex Lives of Snails and my Psoas

    Norm and I were sitting outside last weekend in the evening and we were having one of our ‘one of us is autistic’ conversations. I often wonder what my neighbours must think if they hear the things we discuss. Lisa: I have been watching the snails. Norm: what? where? what snails? Lisa: There on the…

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  • The Princesses and the Peas

    The Princesses and the Peas

    These last few weeks really made me conscious of the passing of time, something that is often skewed by my neurodiversity and time blindness. It also made me incredibly proud of the life and family I have built. July 5th was mine and Norman’s 29th wedding anniversary. We were wed in the beautiful registry office…

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