I recently made a short film with Nurture Channel for You Tube on my own experiences as a parent coping with the death of my husband and my...

"Mum's on Box Hill again!" O ver the past few months, aside from holidays and breaks for illness I have swapped my regular...

Palliative Care. It's been in the news a lot this week.  And as I've seen yet another case of a child who needs a referral to pallia...

One of the first things I did the day after Andy died was to bag up all his meds, injections and creams and take them back to the hospital. ...

Sometimes it feels like I'm a character in some Orwellian nightmare.  Not because of losing Andy or because of any of the children's...

A few years ago I wrote a blog post about whether respite was a right or a privilege .  It has always felt like I should be so grateful to t...

There has been a big gap since my last post.   I have had a post in draft for a while, one about the arrival of our lovely little cocker spa...

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...

We have entered a new phase of our lives as a family with Daisy, the phase where there is nothing more that can be done, where the only acti...