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Aspie, writer's life2 Comments

Wish List

March 24, 2023March 24, 2023 Eryl Gasper-Dick

What do you wish you could do more every day? Mooch around the shore line like a spoonbill, or amble about a gallery full of modern art, without intent. Drink strong, milky coffee and wander the streets of a city … Continue reading Wish List

Nature Reserve, writer's life4 Comments

Access issues

March 20, 2023March 22, 2023 Eryl Gasper-Dick

I don’t suppose any of you know anything about trail cameras and rechargeable batteries, do you? I’m just about bald with hair tearing here, in my search for the damned things. One of my roles is Chair of the local … Continue reading Access issues

Life in General, writer's life16 Comments

Bottoms up!

March 4, 2023March 4, 2023 Eryl Gasper-Dick

I actually got to see a health professional in person! And not just a GP or, as is the norm here now, the practice nurse (brilliant as she is) but a musculoskeletal expert. I’m not quite sure how I pulled … Continue reading Bottoms up!

Life in General, writer's life11 Comments

Lookout, lookout!

February 16, 2023 Eryl Gasper-Dick

Last night D decided to look up my name, Eryl, can’t remember why, but the first thing that came up was a hotel in Bangor called Eryl y Mor and this made him look up what Eryl means. Which led … Continue reading Lookout, lookout!

writer's life1 Comment
Changing Wheelsets.

On the Move

February 16, 2023February 16, 2023 Eryl Gasper-Dick

This will be my last post on this site. It’s become too expensive and I really can’t justify keeping it, so I have resurrected my old blog, erylshields.com and added another url, https://erylgasperdick.com, so you can get to it via … Continue reading On the Move

writer's life10 Comments

Spong

February 13, 2023February 13, 2023 Eryl Gasper-Dick

I think I have a blood clot in my right leg, I told the woman who answered the phone at the doctors’ surgery, and explained my symptoms. She panicked, I can’t see a way of fitting you in, and I … Continue reading Spong

writer's life10 Comments

Renewal

February 1, 2023 Eryl Gasper-Dick

February already and I’m only just making the first post of the year! I have a number of excuses, the biggest being all the house renovations. We’re still not quite finished, we only installed a light fixture in the sitting … Continue reading Renewal

Quotidian, writer's life6 Comments

Oh Crap!

November 10, 2022March 8, 2023 Eryl Gasper-Dick

How handy, I can scrawl a note in GoodNotes and post directly to here! Continue reading Oh Crap!

Aspie, Kitchen Bitch, writer's life7 Comments

Enthusiasms and the Kitchen

August 6, 2022March 14, 2023 Eryl Gasper-Dick

‘And it’s true that I am a person of enthusiasms,’ writes Nigella Lawson in the introduction to her book, Simply Nigella.* I, also, am a person of enthusiasms. Some people may call them obsessions; some passions; some fixations, but I … Continue reading Enthusiasms and the Kitchen

writer's life8 Comments

Mobility

July 17, 2022July 17, 2022 Eryl Gasper-Dick

When I got an iPad (my first) in April, I had high hopes for all the things I’d be able to do with/on it. My laptop is getting old (5 years!) and I’d like to keep it for work stuff … Continue reading Mobility

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