1 post published by markneary during October 2025| Love, Belief and Balls
It really does feel like the end games. Whatever I do to try and protect Steven’s future, fails. Although I’m in remission at the moment, I’m more than aware that remission doesn&…| Love, Belief and Balls
1 post published by markneary during September 2025| Love, Belief and Balls
It’s five years since I wrote Lines and I’ve been hoping to get the follow up written up and published in early 2026. Lines was a celebration of history and in particular my family̵…| Love, Belief and Balls
1 post published by markneary during July 2025| Love, Belief and Balls
I’m going to break a vow. A couple of years ago, I decided to reduce the stories I tell about mine and Steven’s life. It was fear basically. I had been on the receiving end of a rather …| Love, Belief and Balls
"There's Always Something or Other with Mr Neary"| Love, Belief and Balls
It’s end of the road time. A huge round of applause to all those public servants who have created something so ridiculous, it is impossible to penetrate. And a huge raspberry to those same public servants who like to con themselves with the lie that they’re acting in a vulnerable person’s best interests, when in… Continue reading Woody Hands In His Badge→| Love, Belief and Balls
Here’s a quick update on the pantomine of trying to get my sister approved as a joint and several deputy. As I mentioned in the first blog post, the whole process began with the OPG threateni…| Love, Belief and Balls
A: Accessing the Community: Whereas you and I go out, learning disabled people access the community. It means the same thing. This activity usually involves window s…| Love, Belief and Balls
This is a follow up to the post, “Woody Gets A Partner” from 20th March. I apologise if I’m being repetitive, but my instinct tells me that I need to log this story. It isn’t over by a long chalk and I have an uneasy feeling that we’re heading into complaint territory, so recording the… Continue reading Woody Gets A Rude Awakening→| Love, Belief and Balls
I’ve been Steven’s court appointed Deputy since 2012. It wouldn’t have occurred to me to make an application at the time, even though we had just gone through the alarming experie…| Love, Belief and Balls
Love & Life. Love whilst trying to live a life. Living a life under State scrutiny, whilst acting out of love. It’s a mean old mix. I’ve just read Rob Mitchell’s excellent blo…| Love, Belief and Balls
I used to be quite obsessed with playing a silly mental game with myself. Imagine we’re back in the year 2000 and in 2000, I switch on my radiogram and Karma Chameleon is playing. The mental …| Love, Belief and Balls
It’s taken nearly 66 years, but I’m noticing that I’m becoming much better at how I use my energy to generate my reality and how I make choices about the opportunities that reveal…| Love, Belief and Balls