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'm so busy at the moment, it's crazy!  Juggling the demands of my day job three days a week with freelance commitments and campaign...

"your positivity is infectious" a twitter follower once told me after I had spoken at a book festival.  I know, I am one of those ...

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

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

There's been so much going on here, I just have not had time to update my blog, as always though I walk around with my head brimming wit...

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...

Here's another interview as part of my When Life Gives You Lemons series.  I've known Danny and his family for many years.  Danny...

Tonight I'm thinking of the mum of the 18 year old first year nursing student who answered the ward phone during a night shift to have t...

Daisy loved school.  Nothing made her happier after a hospital stay to put on her school jumper and know that it was a school day.  Always t...

I have known Janine (aka: Jin, Mrs Bowring, JOB) since the day after she was born!   My family lived next to her pare...

I was 36 when Daisy was born.  I already had seven years of parenting under my belt. I was acutely aware that in many ways I had s...

So here it is, another Mothering Sunday. The second without Daisy. I was asked this week what I say when I am asked how many children I ha...

--> I'm delighted to launch a new series on my blog today, it's called When Life Gives You Lemons.  Over the years...

We survived Christmas, just.  It was as anticipated, fraught.  It was Daisy's excitement that made Christmas special.  Like any family w...

I haven't updated for ages, once again the poor blog has been neglected.  My life has been taken up with lots of writing projects, some ...

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