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This week is Mind Week and this year it’s all about mental health at work.

I started working for the Midlands Co-Op as a temp initially. I had been working in warehouses, sweeping up and doing other manual jobs, cleaning, putting boxes together, ( Read more... )

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I can’t seem to write at the moment, and I think it’s mostly down to my mood, or the complete erratic pattern of my moods. I’m normally more stable than this, much more, I can keep a straight head for days without any real depression setting in. The ( Read more... )

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Line Dancing Gorillas

Move forward, backwards, side to side,

there’s no one else on the dance floor,

and the music echoes

over the wooden floor,

the lights reflect off faces

too jaded to dance just yet

and her only partner is
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I spent most of yesterday in a haze of anxiety, never able to shake it off completely. At best it was a low hum of panic that settled just below my lungs. It always starts low in my stomach and moves up, to my lungs, further until I can’t think about ( Read more... )

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I tend to carry the past around with me, in a heavy bag on my back, or over my shoulder, the strap across my chest, tightening on the odd occasion for no reason other than a flash of memory, whether it be subconscious or otherwise.

I don’t always ( Read more... )

Stole this off rowan_d  and can't be bothered to do it daily.

Day 1 - Favourite straight pairing
Sam/McKay

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My sister has two kids, in case, in the reading of my blog you hadn’t figured that out. Taylor is seven, Poppy is six months old.

I lived in Leicester until fourteen months ago, and I didn’t see my nephew a whole lot when he was a baby, cause I was ( Read more... )

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