With a little bit of bloomin\’ luck
Reading for pleasure is a gift you can lose and suddenly regain
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The colour of Pratchett
Readers surprised by my post \”Books do furnish a (hospital) room\” where I list Shakespeare, Dickens, Conan Doyle, Wodehouse and Pratchett, as authors to take with me for an extended hospital stay, are obviously unfamiliar with Terry Pratchett. Pratchett is an author who can write thoughts like this – \”No one is finally dead until the
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Silly question
Q. How do you tell whether you are suffering from an illness or from anxiety? A. You can\’t, that\’s the point.
Things that go chomp in the night
Reaching your eighth decade is like walking out on to the Serengeti Plain at night and wondering which one of the predators will get you first.
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Reflex action
You can keep anxiety under control in the same way that you can keep the urge to vomit under control when you have a tummy bug. And, in the same way, when the need to vomit becomes overwhelming, it is uncontrollable; when the pushed-down anxiety needs to emerge, emerge it will.
Fair exchange
I am sure that anyone whose death is marked by the phrase \”he died doing what he loved\” would rather have had an extra five years of life and then died doing something he hated.
Breadcrumb trail
Recovering from anxiety is like being lost in a thick dark forest and then realising that the trees seem a little further apart, letting in a little more light; and then more widely spaced, with patches of sunshine; and then suddenly on to a sunny grassy plain with woodland trees here and there. But you