• Blog Posts - Ways of Escape

    Moments of Freedom

    Sometimes it feels like old age has come a little too quickly recently. Yes, of course, I am getting older and with age there comes compromise. It just feels too quick, infringing on my freedom. Multiple Sclerosis doing its thing. Building walls that are closing in too quickly. Small Escapes There are moments, though, when the walls that are trying to close me in get… a little …unstable. Such moments are different to what they used to be. In the past it would be long walk or a big cycling ride. Perhaps an epic cycling climb. Epic for me, at least. Acts of resistance. Now? A short walk somewhere beautiful.…

  • Blog Posts - Ways of Escape

    Back to Life!

    So, haven’t been here for awhile! A few months. Was feeling a little jaded about blogging, did not really feel like writing about cycling or anything for that matter. The last post I wrote summed up ten years with MS. Was there to say? No-one much read the blog anyway. I was even thinking about closing it as all l seemed to be doing was deleting spam comments. Why keep it going? Then I read a book. It changed my mind. Effectively blew it. ‘Metamorphosis’ I don’t know many books documenting personal experience of MS although there are quite a few blogs. A lot of the latter are ‘inspirational’, or…