Photo credit: George Arthur Plueger @Unsplash I was struck by the comments of two friends this week on social media which did more than...

I was recently for my friend Lucy Watt's podcast.  You will know her from my When Life Gives You Lemons interview . Lucy and I have kn...

I have come to realise that over the past year my life has been guided by Queen Elsa of Arendelle. Yes people, I now look to a fictional a...

There was an interim budget last week in the UK.  Another round of austerity measures, more cuts,  more worrying times for those of us, forc...

I've got yet another chest infection, I feel really rough and no doubt, thanks to my asthma, a prescription for a course of steroids wil...

We really don't handle the whole issue of dying well in this country do we?  It's just not something spoken about, a taboo subject...

Sorry readers, I have neglected you for far too long.  Truth is, this crazy, busy, plate spinning life of mine has gone into warp drive and ...

"So this is Christmas, and what have you done?  Another year over, and a new one just begun... " (John Lennon) Well hello 2015, ...

You may remember that earlier this year I was part of a delegation of Special Needs Bloggers who met with Edward Timpson, MP -  Parliame...

As my children grow up I find myself using some of their phrases to describe things and "dodging a bullet" really does describe...

Pollyanna is a character from a children's book, her name has become a popular term for someone with an optimistic outlook on life.  In ...

An article appeared in the New York Times this week announcing a breakthrough in antenatal testing which is non-invasive so carries no ...

Daisy had another hospital stay this week, another surgery, another anaesthetic.  She had to have her Hickman line (the central line tun...

I have amended this quote from one I saw on the back of a running vest as I ran the Bupa London 10k on Sunday - the quote I saw was "my...

I remember being about 8 months pregnant with Xanthe , Theo had just turned two, I was wracked with guilt about bringing another child...

So why do I write this blog and bare my soul to thousands of strangers week in week out? I was pondering this following a recent thread on...

There is very much a theme about the role of carers going on in blog land this weekend with two fellow bloggers inviting posts to highl...

So how did I come to this point in my life where I made a shift from wage slave to benefit scrounger? Up until November 2004 I had a full ...