Welcome to my blog. I post on this, roughly once a week (it does vary). I sustained a 'Traumatic Acquired Brain Injury', and a six month coma from a 'road traffic accident' whilst cycling, in October 2006. I spent the following 4 years (22-26yrs old), in a combination of hospitals and rehabilitation homes. Now, I have been living independently in Surbiton, England since October 2010. This blog begun life in December 2010, as i realised that there are many people worldwide that i want to share experiences with. I know that, as a wheelchair user, I am obviously not as mobile as i wish, so, use the internet to connect to you. I enjoy letting my thoughts represent through type. I type honestly. As numerous readers, as well as email recipients, will understand, I find typing to be very therapeutic. Thank you :)
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Friday 26 October 2018

just go on...

- Independent Coffee Shops
- Sit and Wait
- Turn Off at the Plug

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PICS began to be built around two years ago


  • 21 Independent Coffee Shops were researched, surveyed, and reviewed for you all, as the website was born around two years ago. No official dates were assigned, as I begun by reviewing just a couple of my personal favourites. 
  • The fat crescent (90degree arc) across South-West London was drawn as a limit was made. A ‘limit’, as there were many more sites than I originally predicted!
  • No money was made,  but I am a coffee-lover, and I wasn’t prepared to travel too far across the whole of London. 

‘Oh, just go on Internet-dating’
  • A comment that I have received more than once, when I explain that I need a positive answer to my calls.  
  • Internet-dating can work, but it is a bad, dangerous, costly place. 
  • Fortunately, I am aware of this, but I am fed-up. I have my belief in ‘fate’, shouting out to me. 
  • I must sit and wait. I sit and wonder.


FOMOMG
An interesting webpage explains a large mental issue that seems to affect many women. I think that the same does affect men, but they are afraid to admit this problem...’Fear Of Missing Out on My Goals’
Yet again, I am different. My very special situation, eliminates me from this. I cannot have this ‘Fear...’. 
I just woke up one day, having to face the harsh reality that ‘I Will Miss Out On My Goals’
... A very harsh reality, but a reality! I am so relieved that I do not have ‘The Fear’
We are all just the same. It intrigues me that some people fear missing goals that they set themselves. We aim for a target or a goal that we have set ourself, but surely if we miss, we know why... We accurately find new things that we must correct. We should all have goals that we are targeting and missing, all of the time.
Humans are from Earth. Surely we all face the same, one, biggest goal? 



Cat Power interviewed by Tom Middleton on BBC 6Music

- My life is one-big-goal. It is tough work, but the rewards are essentially invaluable. 

Ten years ago, I had been out of hospital for a year, residing firmly in my rehab-home, but    was clueless. Clueless as to how long I would be ‘trapped’ there. Yes, everyone was working hard towards ‘escape’. I remained content (in a similar mentality, as I am currently). I have forever been content, safe in the knowledge that I am doing what I can, ‘my time will come’. Just as the sun remains in place and we revolve around it, day turns to night, and repeat. I remained on path even though I had extreme stress induced on me. It was so important that I maintained self-belief.

October 2010 arrived, and I was out! I could not cite anything or any moment in particular, but my hard-work had paid-off!

I am still on the path of ‘recovery’. I will forever be on this path. Whether I like it or not, I have no choice. Hard work. Work, like no other person knows. Life gets better. Clear improvements will happen. It is impossible for me to know when I will experience these ‘leaps’. I just know that I have to stay positive, and maintain my ‘positive & progressive’ outlook. Everything in life is a ‘positive’, we must recognise it as such, otherwise we turn regressive, which is negative.

Abandoning ship involves a clear, regressive and negative fall, sinking to a lonesome peril.
Stay aboard, and learn the ropes to steer towards paradise. Paradise can never be reached, but I know which option I would prefer to take!
Ride the waves, don’t jump!

I switch off at the plug
I have known that I am fairly peculiar, for a long time (since waaaaay before ‘my accident’)!
Peculiar, in a good way (i hope).
The example that I wish to cite here, is that I usually switch electrical products on/off by flicking the mains-supply plug. This may/not negate need for a separate power switch on the product. The process of using an energy supply becomes imprinted in my head. The simple process reminds us to turn off at the plug, when finished. 
It re-iterates to us all that we are costing ourselves. Obviously there is a financial cost, but also a reminder that we must be responsible, and only take what we need!

I am sat in a Clapham-Junction coffee shop, and I’m disdained. A man has just entered, queued up, and ordered a ‘De-Caf Macchiato’! A man in a suit and tie, who obviously likes posing with a ‘coffee’, but actually just a small hot milky cup of hot air (froth).
I usually drink Double-Macchiato, if I choose a long drink. An ‘Espresso Macchiato’ is just a shot of espresso coffee, ‘marked’ with a touch of milk. 
Britain has been hit by coffee-culture, but choose to wimp out, drinking US-style! 
I know that many of you will disagree with my ‘harsh attitude’, but I love coffee. It offends me when I see my love disrespected!
HUMPF :(!!



PLUS!!!!
Yesterday, the route for the 2019 Tour de France was released!




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