Announcement on the Victoria Line train today: “Do not encourage beggars on the Tube by supporting them”
directly followed by;
“Poppy collectors are operating at this station. Support the heroes who sacrificed so much for you”.
But what if… Continue reading →
An angel was smiling on me today – in Topshop, Oxford Circus of all places! With Rheumatoid Arthritis I near to never go shopping in person now opting to make my purchases online where there are no painful armloads of clothes to carry or equally painful queues not just for the changing rooms but for also then for the till. And then of course for the tube ride home where my TFL ‘Please Offer Me a Seat’ badge goes mostly ignored. Continue reading →
Who saw last night’s Channel 4’s ‘My Week as a Muslim’? I have to say I found it quite disturbing and not because it featured a racist but because of the way the programme portrayed the racist. Self confessed Islamophobe and NHS Healthcare Assistant, Katie Freeman traded in her life for a week to spend it with Saima Alvi a teacher and a Muslim. Katie was very open about her racist views considering all Muslims to be terrorists even telling her own 16 year old daughter that “ladies in burkas have suicide belts around them”. Not even the word ‘probably’ in there. Continue reading →
Unbelievably there are people saying we shouldn’t politicise the Grenfell Tower fire. It would be an insult to the victims not to. This tragedy/ manslaughter happened BECAUSE of politics! Here are just a few of the events in the run up to the fire. Continue reading →
As the UK gets ready to vote tomorrow – a fitting repost of my article on the award winning film I, Daniel Blake. The Tory government has spent the last 6yrs vilifying, tormenting and throwing the most vulnerable in society into poverty whilst ensuring the rich get richer. And with plans to remove our human rights as and when they please, things are set to become even worse for disabled people… #GE2017 #NastyParty #VoteCorbyn #WeAreAllDanielBlake Continue reading →
By Wednesday it had already been pretty physically and mentally demanding week as you may have gathered from this week’s blogs; May stole my NHS, bring on June and The NHS cookie crumbles. I was craving protein when I saw these ‘Yorkshire Balls’* which sounded exciting! 😄 Continue reading →
Wow thanks for your response on my last blog! Great to know so many care about our NHS! Well, today was *that* hospital appointment. Despite a month of messages, I still didn’t hear back from my hospital to tell me if my chemo was ready aka ‘would driving in today be a wasted journey making me more ill?’ So I did my best ‘dragging a dead body around’ impression this morning, driving an hour in crazy traffic to get to hospital. These two dialogues happened…
Bum. I’ve run out of my chemo aka methotrexate aka mtx. This isn’t me being slack, this is the rippling effects of government cuts to the NHS which has only worsened with Theresa May. Over the past month I have let my hospital know in person that I am running out, left four phone messages and have also reminded them to re-instate the order of my biologic drug Humira. When I ring the answer phone message says ‘due to NHS cuts the phone lines are now only manned 3 days a week’. Continue reading →
Do you know what this vegetable is? I think my mum is the only person in the world who can make karela taste good!! She covers in Kashmiri masala paste and cooks in coconut oil. She also makes into a salad when raw. This weird ass bitter as f* veg doesn’t taste like anything else I can describe! Continue reading →
A little detour from the looming General Election and what it ‘May’ mean for us, I made these autoimmune beauties this morning! After a fab Easter weekend of entertaining visiting friends, I find there’s never enough veg when eating out, so myself and the bf have been craving veg and all the good stuff this week! Continue reading →
All Fur Coat and RA 