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

It's Daisy's birthday.  She would be a teenager today.  But now she will be forever twelve. I'm not sure how I feel.  If Daisy...

"A young widow is a statistical outlier" - I read that in a paper today, it was part of a feature on Christmases without your h...

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 ...

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...