"Find your tribe", it's the advice I give the many parents of children with additional needs who contact me.  It doesn...

"a third of our family has gone..." My eldest son has aspergers.  His directness and honesty can be bluntly refreshing.  It'...

Happy 70th Birthday to the NHS. To me you are like a favourite aunt, cantankerous, imperfect but full of love and always there when you ne...

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...

I'm in a no-man's land at the moment.  Set adrift from a place I once knew.  It wasn't perfect, but I was easy in it's famil...

It was always our rule to wait until 12th December to put our Christmas decorations up in our family.  That's my dad's birthday.  Ev...

I had a dream the other night, it's one I have quite a lot .  The one where I am on my own at home, doing Daisy's IVs late at night ...

Christmas.  For Daisy this was the most important time of the year (closely followed by her birthday, and then everyone else's birthdays...

The best piece of advice I have ever been given was by a colleague when I was working at Hewlett Packard.  I really wanted a global role and...

"You should write a book" I've lost count of the number of people who have said that to me over the years. So I did. h...

We took Daisy back to school for her funeral, one last trip to the school she loved and had attended from the age of three.  I wanted to hid...

It's so hard to believe that Daisy has gone, that we will not see her any more, that I won't hear her call out "mummyyyyy!!!!!!...

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...

I know I talk about death a lot in this blog, but everyone who knows me personally also knows that I am the most optimistic, positive person...

2016 London Marathon done, not a personal best time but pretty decent at 04:24 given everything else I have had on my plate..... ...

It's only been 4 months.  4 months since I last held Andy's hand, 4 months since he was in this house. In the days and weeks afterwa...

A couple of weeks ago I decided to take Daisy to an inclusive Dance & Singing workshop at the Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank in Lo...

Today I was supposed to be in Brussels.  Today was supposed to be a day just for me, a first chance to get away with a friend and have time ...

So we're mid way through March, spring is definitely here in London.  Yesterday I did a 20 mile training run in preparation for the Lond...

Today is a sad day.  One month ago today I held my husband's hand as he took his last breath.  I told my children that their daddy had p...