One mad woman and ME

Once upon a time, many years ago, a friend told me that I needed to try a game. I was on 28kbps dial-up that knocked me offline every two hours, I was also disabled by a chronic illness, but that turned out to be beside the point. The game was the original...

Reblogged from Sue Marsh: http://diaryofabenefitscrounger.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/confirmed-full-impact-of-cuts-disabled.html
Since the coalition came to power, sick and disabled people have claimed we are being fundamentally harmed by the coalition welfare reforms. Not scroungers or skivers, but  people living with long term serious illnesses like me, or who live with physical...

I don't want to list the symptoms and the challenges here; I don't want to dwell in the gloomy shadows of my illness. I sit here talking to my computer and putting positive words on my screen, surrounded by as much beauty and joy as I can cram into the...

My housing benefit has never covered the entire cost of my rent. I have never yet been offered a council property which suits my needs. Taken together these two facts add up to my being "rent poor" for my entire adult life, whether fit enough to work...