The words and the wheels

I'm not new to this blogging lark. In fact I've been boring unsuspecting visitors to my corner of the blogosphere (or those who I forcibly brought here through excessive Facebook and Twitter linkage) for some time now. At least since 2012, when I started my training to walk to collect my BA on graduation day, and the page that went with it, Walking by 2013. Then I set up its sequel, Walking by 2015, when my wheelchair broke in April of 2014. Readers of the latter will have noticed, though, that my posts petered out in December...and probably thought (as I did) that that would be my final foray into this medium. 

The reason for that was my chair taking rather longer to be fixed than I had hoped (fifteen months, in the end!) and the consequent strain on my body. Basically, I was in such discomfort that there wasn't much of a project on which to report, and I didn't really get the point of publishing just for the sake of it. Particularly whilst I was in pain and trying to navigate the surprisingly physical challenges of a second Master's degree (but more on those later).

My chair is finally fixed, though, which means I can sit up again - and, having spent the last nine of those fifteen months with little space for anything other than essays, I've realised how much I've missed writing posts like these for fun. Not to a specified rubric, not with a particular tutor in mind, nor in the hopes that anyone will necessarily read them - but just because it's something I enjoy. Also, not having a fully working or workable mode of transport for so long has made me more fully appreciate the freedom my chairs have afforded me - and the possibilities that this new one is helping me to rediscover. I am slowly coming to understand how these two aspects of my life combine to give me a perspective which is to be celebrated and embraced (spasms, speeding, fights with steps and all) rather than shied away from and chiselled down to size.

I am wordy and I am wheely, and both are equally valid - one does not have to hide the other - and they might actually make each other more interesting!

That's pretty much the point of this blog. So, if you fancy reading the occasional ramble, do stop by. I'd love to have you!