My MS
by Ian Heydon

How lonely must it have been to have MS 20 years ago, before the internet. The last five comments on this widdle website came from Geelong, Michigan, Auckland, Gosford and New Orleans and the photo came from Roz, my MS friend in Greece. That’s a sunrise over Turkey from her balcony on the island of Lesbos. [...]

Well, you learn something every day! Mosquitos –did you know that only the female bites and only the female buzzes – the man mossies feed on plant nectar while the girls need protein from blood for their eggs. I also read that the female only mates once and lives longer than the male but the [...]

I have posted before about fellow MSer Nicole from New Orleans and her terrific blog, My New Normals – well, she is now a TV star! Sort of… Nicole is part of a group that meets in a park to do ‘laughter yoga’ – there is a lot of scientific fact in the saying that [...]

In the previous post there was some amazing chalk art – and it is an art form. This artist is a guy called Julian Beever with a street ad he did for Coca Cola. It is a style of art called anamorphosis, which means it is an optical illusion that only works when looked at [...]

Recently I confided that MS has brought with it a bit of vertigo… three out of these four urban climbing situations give me an uneasy feeling just looking at them. The other one makes me feel very easily in awe.

Here is why I think Julia Gillard is the right person to lead Labor to the next election, with a chance of winning. This photo was taken at Parliament House today. Read the language – I see someone relaxed with genuine laughter and someone who is confident and in control. She now has the bogeyman off [...]

Friend and fellow MSer, Chez, heads off on a 14 night cruise today with hubby David and friends Phil and Kerry. They will visit Noumea, Fiji and Vanuatu. When they dock in Port Vila on Sunday, they will be met at the wharf by a lovely ni-Vanuatu chap called George. To me, ‘Papa’ George is [...]

It was Hollywood’s ‘Night of Nights’ and the flick that will see the box office dollars roll in is The Artist for picking up five Oscars including Best Director, Best Actor, Best Picture and Most Overrated Cinematic Wank of the Year. Imagine what they could have won if the actors were allowed to talk! When it [...]