Episodios

  • Descent into MS - Episode 3b - Shared Ground

    Descent into MS - Episode 3b - Shared Ground
    Sep 4 2025

    In this special follow-up episode, Grahame, E, and The Sandy Man come together for a warm and wide-ranging conversation about life with MS. With honesty, humour, and heart, they reflect on their shared experiences, exploring the challenges, unexpected triumphs, and everyday moments that shape their journeys.

    From the calm of meditation to the comfort of community, from the power of poetry to laughter that cuts through the heaviness, this episode highlights the resilience and creativity that life with MS can inspire. It is a candid exchange between friends that offers both insight and lightness, reminding us that while MS changes lives, it can also deepen them.



    🏥 MS & Support Resources
    • St Andrew’s Hospice: Outpatient Services
    • Beach Wheelchairs
    • MS Society Scotland
    • Revive MS Support (Scotland)




    📧 Contact

    For feedback, thoughts, or to share your own story:

    Gramliz2002@gmail.com

    (Please use the subject header: “MS please.”)

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    44 m
  • Descent into MS - Episode 3 - Make Do and Mend

    Descent into MS - Episode 3 - Make Do and Mend
    Aug 20 2025

    In this episode of Descent into MS, strap yourself in for a raw, funny, and moving look at the realities of adapting to life with MS. From imagined MI5 lift lobbies to beach holidays gone sideways, we explore what it really means to make do and mend when the rules of daily life are rewritten by chronic illness.

    Host Grahame shares stories of humour, humility, and hope, whether it’s navigating counselling services, mastering fatigue management, or finding connection with strangers in unexpected places. There’s poetry, punk spirit, and a few rogue James Bond fantasies. But above all, this episode is a heartfelt reminder that being broken doesn't mean being useless, and that with support, adaptation, and a bit of dark humour, we can rebuild.


    Listen, laugh, and hopefully learn something new about living with MS.


    Because we are Spartacus. We may be broken, but we shall make do. And mend.



    🎶 Music
    • Etta James – Stormy Weather
    • Colorblind James Experience - I'm Considering A Move To Memphis
    • Bob Dylan at Newport Folk Festival 1965


    🏥 MS & Support Resources
    • St Andrews Hospice Outpatient Services
    • Beach Wheelchairs
    • MS Society Scotland
    • Revive MS Support (Scotland)


    📧 Contact

    Gramliz2002@gmail.com (Subject header should be MS please.)


    🎬 Film List

    Apocalypse Now Director's Cut, Dead Man's Shoes, Field of Dreams, Hamburger Hill, Platoon, Restless Natives

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    16 m
  • Mairi's Musings - Episode 12 - Mairi reviews The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

    Mairi's Musings - Episode 12 - Mairi reviews The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King
    Jul 31 2025
    This week Mairi reviews an old favourite book and audiobook, Stephen King's The Shawshank Redemption. This audiobook is a classic prison tale where King enthrals us with his excellent story telling without his usual horror slant. It is also the first time we've seen Stephen King on BorrowBox.

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    9 m
  • Mairi's Musings - Episode 11 - Mairi reviews Honeycomb by Joanne M. Harris

    Mairi's Musings - Episode 11 - Mairi reviews Honeycomb by Joanne M. Harris
    Jul 25 2025

    For this week's listening pleasure, Mairi reviews the book, Honeycomb by Joanne M. Harris. Beautifully illustrated by Charles Vess, it's a collection of intertwined tales about The Silken folk, and the Lacewing King, on his journey through many worlds, where he seems to make more enemies than friends.


    Find it in our catalogue.

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    5 m
  • Mindfulness with Eleanor - Episode 4 – A Safe Place

    Mindfulness with Eleanor - Episode 4 – A Safe Place
    Jul 22 2025
    This practice enables us to settle in the present moment, in a Safe Place, which offers us security, comfort and contentment.

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    9 m
  • Mindfulness with Eleanor - Episode 3 – Compassionate Image

    Mindfulness with Eleanor - Episode 3 – Compassionate Image
    Jul 22 2025
    This practice soothes us by bringing to mind an image which denotes aspects of kindness, compassion, peace and wellbeing.

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    10 m
  • Mindfulness with Eleanor - Episode 2 – Training the Mind to Focus

    Mindfulness with Eleanor - Episode 2 – Training the Mind to Focus
    Jul 22 2025
    This practice helps us to settle the mind by concentrating on different parts of the body. This helps us to choose what we want to focus on.

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    10 m
  • Mindfulness with Eleanor – Episode 1 – RAIN Practice

    Mindfulness with Eleanor – Episode 1 – RAIN Practice
    Jul 22 2025
    This mindfulness practice helps us to Recognise what moods, mind states, feelings and emotions are present for us. It Allows us to accept our present mood and Investigate where we are holding or experiencing it within the body. It enables us to have an open relationship with our moods and not become them, through a process of Non-Identification.

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    10 m