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Dancing in the strobe lights
I went to the hair dressers on Wednesday – it was the second time since covid started that I’ve been. When you’re as infrequent as me they just give you anyone and this time the tiny lady with the scissors … Continue reading
Posted in Beachville, Good for you, Pog Life
Tagged dancing, date, fatboy slim, raving
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Laughing through numbers and names
Today was a good day. Today there were only a few tears and then so much laughing I left Mum and Dad’s house wheezing… Because today an Occupational Therapist visited to help Mum bake a cake. Mum told me last … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, looking after Mum, Pog Life
Tagged baking with mum, laughing, mum, rehab, stroke survivor
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Losing words. And sometimes a little bit of my mind.
Tuesday is the day I go and help out Mum. She had a stroke in May and it left her with slight wonky-ness – in her body, her thinking and especially in her words. Conversations with Mum can vary wildly, … Continue reading
Hi honey, I’m home
I last wrote a Pog Blog post on June 15th 2018. I added some posts to document lockdown in Covid last year, but I stopped as….well, it turns out not much happens in lockdown and it went on and on … Continue reading
Posted in Pog Life
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Exit: The cookie monster
Shall I tell you a secret? You know the diploma I’m doing? I didn’t really think it through. You want to know how I ended up studying psychotherapy and hypnosis really, truly and honestly? I was reading a book. Not … Continue reading
Posted in hypnotherapy, Pog Life
Tagged biscuits, cookie monster, diploma, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, Overthinking, psycotherapy, training
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Princess Pog and the (magical) tiara
The other day I mentioned in this post that Sister 1 had progressed the ‘lets embarrass our sister with weirdly addressed post’ competition, by sending me a parcel addressed to ‘Princess Pog’. We currently have a lovely decorator man here … Continue reading
Posted in family, Pog Life
Tagged cancer, hooray, magical tiara, post, post man, princess pog, Sister 1, tiara, wow
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Full Marks (#stepmumwins 2)
Himself eats pretty much anything I give him, his boys do not. I don’t think I even need the fingers on one hand to count the meals they will eat, and it’s a source of much frustration, especially as we … Continue reading
Posted in family, food, Pog Life, step mum
Tagged #stepmumwins, bigger boy, cooking, Da Boyz, Himself, Pogdo's, smaller boy, step mum, step mum wins
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Note to self: Engage brain
I’ve never been great at remembering to engage my brain before speaking. Or at all, really. I think these conversations over the last day or so sum that up quite well: Himself: Isn’t that plant the weed we pulled out … Continue reading
Still Pogging it.
I don’t think I’ll ever learn. I’ve been internally congratulating myself recently that I’ve been being a bit of a grown up. I’ve done this before and been repaid with something slightly odd happening so I should have known. I … Continue reading
Posted in Pog Life, work
Tagged BIG rain, grown up, ooops, pogging it, presentations, rain
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#stepmumwins
I’ve done some scary things in my time. My volunteer work in the Philippines was pretty scary. Learning to scuba dive (and throw up underwater as a result of the panic attacks it induced) was rather hairy and almost every … Continue reading
Posted in cats, family, Pog Life, Realtionships, step mum
Tagged #stepmumwins, bigger boy, family, Himself, Norman, smaller boy, step mum, stepparent
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