The Clockwork Dodo

You're stuck in the house nearly all the time. You can't get to work. You rarely see any family members. You can't visit any of your friends. You can't go to the pub, church, theatres, concer...

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It's International ME Awareness day today. I've decided to take part in #MillionsMissing - a global campaign which has been happening on this day for several years now. In major cities around...

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It's ME Awareness day today, but once again I haven't felt well enough this week to think about a blog post for it. So instead I'll post an ME function ability scale, which allows people with...

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Best wishes for Christmas to anyone reading this: I'm sorry I don't feel able to do my usual round of visiting other blogs and wishing people a happy Christmas this year. I haven't blogged ...

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I took this photo for someone on a diabetes forum who is trying to break the stereotypes surrounding diabetes, particularly in response to references to "diabetes on a plate". I couldn't get it ...

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Yesterday? I totally forgot it was ME Awareness day. Today? I can't think clearly enough to write a blog post about it. This is the sort of thing which happens when you have severe cogniti...

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I had intended to post this follow-up to my previous post several months ago, but I've been so busy concentrating on my my 50 Things To Do While I'm 50 blog that I haven't had time to sort ...

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I haven't posted here much lately (if you're reading this and you haven't realised, I'm now blogging occasionally about my new garden here and more frequently about my 50th year celebrations...

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People sometimes wonder why ME sufferers can have such different symptoms from each other, or why the illness can fluctuate so much, so that one day someone with ME can seem quite well, but a...

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I'm hoping that, time and brain fog allowing, I'll be able to resume blogging (mostly on my garden blog, but sometimes here too) in the new year ...

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I'm copying this across, with some slight alterations, from my A Garden Full Of Dodos blog , because I know there are some people following The Clockwork Dodo who don't follow there, so apologie...

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I started a thread on a forum 1 for people with ME, entitled "You know you have ME when ....". You may be able to imagine the sort of thing I was expecting: YOU KNOW YOU HAVE ME WHEN ... ....

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Well, actually I'm not quite doing that, because I'm not saying for which party I used my (postal) vote, nor am I asking you to vote for a particular party, or trying to start any political debat...

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I've received a couple of emails from Green Island Gardens in Colchester, about the Bluebells Bazaar they are holding over the weekend of May 16-17, in aid of the National Gardens Scheme . Appar...

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This photo was taken during the last snow we had in our old garden in Cambridge, in January 2013. Happy Christmas! If you're still reading this blog, why not go over to my new blog about m...

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HOW TO MOVE A GARDEN ... 1) Move all the plants you want to keep into pots. 2) Hire a van and line it with sheets of cardboard and paper sacks to keep it clean.. 3) See how many plant...

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I have finally managed to finish my list - it's taken several days as I have so many other things to do at the moment. So, here it is - I'm tempted to say "in no particular order", but actually i...

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I haven't been keeping up with the blogging world while we were moving, so I've only just stumbled across this meme , arising from a conversation between Lazy Trollop , Arabella Sock , and some o...

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BAGS FULL OF ECO-FRIENDLY CORN STARCH PACKING BOBBLES SHOULD NOT BE STORED IN A BOX ON THE FLOOR OF THE GARAGE. They tell you that polystyrene packing bobbles can be used as crocks for pots. ...

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Here's another of these lovely illustrations published by Currier and Ives in the 1870s, from Wikimedia Commons. We have finally exchanged contracts on the house we're buying (after several...

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It's LAPCPADPOUB day , so my blog is 5 years old today. Unfortunately I haven't had very much time for blogging this year (let alone writing dire poems), due to the apparently never-ending proces...

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... GARDENS TO GET CAKE. Sadly I didn't have time to visit a garden today as I've just got home after an exhausting week's house-hunting, but I didn't want to miss out on VP's Chelsea Fringe Ev...

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I can't believe it's over three months since I blogged. I've been incredibly busy trying to get the house ready to sell, as R has a new job which means that instead of the leisurely move we had p...

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... on our front garden revamp . I was going to post this about six weeks ago, but the photos I took just after we did the work were fuzzy, and since then it has either been pouring with rain or ...

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I wasn't planning to post today, but I just came across this illustration, which was published in 1876 by Currier and Ives, and I really liked it. It's a public domain image, but The Stock So...

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