Tag: isolation

  • Life by Social Media

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    Jane Shaw
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    In the last 10 years our lives seem to have been totally taken over by social media.  There are hundreds of networking sites and blogs, most of which I have never heard of, but then I am not today’s young generation. I do admit to using Facebook, which for some reason is rather addictive and…

  • Little Miss Brainfog

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    Jane Shaw
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    Little Miss Brainfog lived in a normal house in a normal street, surrounded by normal people. Little Miss Brainfog also looked normal, but had an illness with and extraordinarily long name, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, which it is easier to call ME. Like it’s name Myalgic Encephalomyelitis is also rather complicated and extraordinary. The illness made Little…

  • James Martin made me cry.

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    Jane Shaw
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    I have been watching a new James Martin series Operation Meet the Street.  Each day James goes with a celebrity to the street where they grew up, to see what it is like now and to meet people who are lonely and isolated for whatever reason.  Today the main people featured were isolated by the illnesses…