I admit I do have a bit of a problem with buying stuff from my local auction. Everything in the above image, except for my books, was purchased from the local auction. I can’t help it, I could blame it on my Parkinson’s medication, but deep down I know it’s me. I get a buzz out of finding beautiful and unusual, possibly unique items. I adore researching and learning about things and it fascinates me to think that objects made by our ancestors hundreds of years ago are still o

When people hear the words Parkinsons Disease, it usually triggers mental images of old men with the shakes. Am i right? Or is that me just being presumptious? Actually i will rephrase the statement. When i was told i had parkinsons i had the mental images of old men shaking. Then i discovered that good old Mr P is not just a one trick pony, oh no, Mr P has all sorts of practical jokes up his sleeve. He has tried out a few on me so far and i am currently in the process of fin

You know that disease old men get when their hands shake and they shuffle along like their slippers are too big? That disease that Michael J Fox has and the lead singer from 80’s band A-HA has just announced he has it too? Parkinson’s disease seems to be very ‘in’ right now, it even had a whole month dedicated to it a few weeks back. The thing is I’m not a man, I’m not that old either, well not elderly anyway, I was only 48 and yes i did have the shakes in my hand a bit but w

i am sitting by the pool on the lido deck on P and O’s Britannia in the port of La Coruna in Spain, feeling like the luckiest girl in the world. The younger me, the one with the mortgage, overdraft, divorced and bringing up young children alone , never even dreamed that the 50-something future me would be here one day. But here I am and I am very grateful for it too. Admittedly the Young Me never envisioned I would be diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at 48 years old and rel

I decided last night to start a blog………….. So I bought a website……… And I discovered my first three blogs Had already been written for me by AI. Now surely that is cheating? Once i have worked out how to delete the blogs that AI has written for me there will be some work of my own