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Including disabled people in politics

18 February 20227 February 2022

Updated 18th February 2022 Disabled people are often told we are needed in politics and should be more active, but the people saying this never consider what kind of accommodations might be needed to make it possible for us to …

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Categories #MyalgicE, #pwME, Abelism, Accessibility, Chronic illness, Disability, MECFS

Update 1: Using a heart rate monitor to better manage MECFS (including HRV)

1 August 20211 August 2021

In mid June, I talked about using a heart rate monitor to better manage MECFS. I thought it might be useful to post an update and let you know how it’s going. And I’m adding information about another useful measurement, …

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Categories #MyalgicE, #pwME, Accessibility, Chronic illness, Disability, Gardening with ME, Heart Rate Monitor, MECFS, Uncategorized

Using a heart rate monitor to better manage MECFS

1 August 202115 June 2021

A couple of months ago I was asking questions on Mastodon and Twitter for help with finding a heart rate monitor to help me better manage pacing and my MECFS symptoms. The reason for this was that I’d read a …

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Categories #MyalgicE, #pwME, Accessibility, Disability, Gardening with ME, Heart Rate Monitor, MECFS
A white blonde woman standing in the community garden, wearing gardening gloves and holding a small pot with a young plant in it. She is looking to the right, and is talking about potting on or planting out young plants.

Slow-onset ME

2 June 202112 March 2021

This article was first published in the ME Association’s ME Essential magazine, Spring 2021, pages 32-33. Slow onset ME. You’ve probably never heard of it. It’s mentioned here and there, and on the ME Association website, but there are no …

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Categories #MyalgicE, #pwME, MECFS, Other Musings, Uncategorized Tags Chronic Illness, Disability, MECFS, MyalgicE, Slow-onset ME

The new garden

16 May 202130 April 2018

At the end of March, Kevin & I finally moved into our new, and hopefully long-term, home and garden. Yay! So this is a bit of an introduction to the new garden. It isn’t much now, but it has potential. …

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Categories #pwME, back garden, Chronic illness, front garden, Gardening with ME, Permaculture

Gardening with ME: May garden update

14 May 20219 May 2016

In recent posts I’ve mainly been blogging about gardens to visit and Spoonie Veg, so I thought it was time to do a general update of the garden. Kitchen garden In my small kitchen garden I’ve kept to my decision …

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Categories #MyalgicE, #pwME, Gardening with ME, Kitchen garden, Ornmental garden

Spoonie Veg: growing in raised beds and containers

14 May 20217 April 2016

After publishing my introduction to Spoonie Veg post, I received some really interesting and helpful perspectives from readers, both on my blog and in Twitter conversations. One thing that came out of this was that I realised a post on …

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Categories #MyalgicE, #pwME, Container growing, Gardening with ME, Raised beds, Spoonie Veg, Vegetable beds

Gardening with ME: a gentle start to the year with Cornus pruning

14 May 202112 February 2016

Cornus alba ‘Elegantissima’ each end, with the darker Cornus alba ‘Kesselringii’ in the middle I am making a gentle start to the gardening year with pruning my Cornus (dogwood). Noticing yesterday that the new leaves on my Cornus was already …

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Categories #MyalgicE, #pwME, Cornus Border, Gardening with ME, Pruning

Gardening with ME: pressed flowers & foliage – the first results

14 May 202111 December 2015

This is a follow-up of my post at the end of November, on my new hobby of pressing flowers and foliage. I checked how the pressings were going a week ago (all fine) and yesterday I completed process of adding …

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Categories #MyalgicE, #pwME, Gardening with ME, Pressed Flowers & Foliage

Gardening with ME: pressed flowers & foliage – a new gardening-related hobby?

14 May 202126 November 2015

It started with a Tweet. The above tweet in fact from Caro Shrives @UrbanVegPatch, last Saturday. Actually, it started before that even. In my last post I talked about having to face some hard facts about how much more I …

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Categories #MyalgicE, #pwME, Gardening with ME, Pressed Flowers & Foliage

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