If your feet, toes, fingers or hands tingle, or feel numb more often than not, and for no reason, go and see your doctor. Immediately. It might be nothing, but what have you got to lose?
If your feet, toes, fingers or hands tingle, or feel numb more often than not, and for no reason, go and see your doctor. Immediately. It might be nothing, but what have you got to lose?
I have several boards on Pinterest - https://uk.pinterest.com/daverfarmer - that range from Zombie Art to Beautiful words, Adventure photos and Writing Prompts. It has become my go-to app, and my favourite time sponge. Recently I've struggled with writing. Not the actual physical act of tapping away on the keyboard, or indeed the dreaming and scheming …
Continue reading Writing Prompts – Ending or Feeding Procrastination?
When asked if there was a highlight of my Africa trip I feel my face scrunch up as I struggle to blurt out one specific thing that will make the asker happy. It's like pushing someone to state what aspect of breathing oxygen they find the best. "Well, since it keeps me alive I kinda …
Continue reading Kilimanjaro: Beyond My Comfort Zone – Part 3
With my Kilimanjaro summit dream dead and gone (for this trip at least) I was brought back to Moshi in a ramshackle, bouncy 4x4 truck, driven by a park ranger obsessed with two mobile phones. On the plus side we encountered a troop of baboons hurtling along the road ahead of the truck before they …
Continue reading Kilimanjaro: Beyond My Comfort Zone – Part 2
That's me at my summit. Shira Camp 1. Kilimanjaro. Tanzania. That's in Africa, a place I'd never planned to visit, not through any particular fear but because I was comfortable within my little bubble. I had my work, my writing, dogs, popping to the shops, mooching around Cambridge. Nice and simple and safe. Like Sheldon …
Continue reading Kilimanjaro: Beyond My Comfort Zone – Part 1