Lightness

Lightness of Spirit   ‘April is the cruellest month ‘  T.S. Eliot.  The Waste Land Yes because for me April seems to tease with a hint of warmer days and then return to the cold and dampness we have come to know of winter and early Spring. I am no doubt biased...

Dancing with Arthritis blog post 13/3/2023

  How to write a blog – just start where you are the voice said. Well today I am ok!  Should I say more?  After a long movement session, which was new to me, on Monday, my arthritic knees felt weak and sore.  On Saturday, Sunday and Monday my joints felt good so...

Sidi Kaouki

Down on the beach a lone camel stands. The seat on his back is empty. At his master’s voice he bends his knees, and sits patiently waiting. His head turned to the surf and the wind.

Marrakech

Scooters and bikes and all the likes. Tuk tuk taxis and motos with carts. Donkeys and barrows and even a horse! In the narrowest streets I have known. Horns hoot and engines roar, Donkeys bay with the constant beat of the heart inside the medina. The Muezzins’ call...

Neck Pain or Temperomandibular disorder?

I have had neck and shoulder pain and stiffness for the last four or five weeks.  My jaw has clicked for many years but is not sore.   But, moving my jaw back and forward and side to side along with neck stretches seems to help my neck pain.  Of course they are linked...