Grief sat heavily on me as I drove home yesterday. It was a day that could have been, might have been, a birthday. A sixth birthday. It's a loss eclipsed now, but not forgotten, even if I might prefer that. Even if it might be more politic. There are days when counting up the missing […]
Rock Doc in Cambridge Trip.
It's hard to believe, but my brother is a fully fledged rock doc, a doctor of geological stuff, on loan from Australia. We are very much enjoying having him here. Today, having navigated sick babies, freezing fog, various other things and goodness knows what, we took a day out for the girls to do some […]
Sponsored Video: Christmas
I’ve just come back from a week with friends who might as well be family; this year I played Santa, having organised the secret santa which always consists of thoughtfully made, cooked or thrifted gifts for people we have all known for nearly 10 years. Each year the gifts seem to get more beautiful, the […]
Where was I?
You may have noticed I was away last week, on our annual trip to a youth hostel with friends. I went away intending to do some work in quiet moments but the youth hostel had poor signal and Bene and I were enjoying each others company, plus I had the company of all my very […]
Sponsored Video: Vote for a Piggy!
You might remember recently that I wrote the post about the NatWest Piggie competition. Well, I’m popping up again to ask you to ask you to vote for your favourite of the winners. We didn’t make the shortlist but looking at the entries, I think the quality was high enough for us not to feel […]
Looking ahead
Post Laser Eye Surgery Max’s post is below, but since he’s had all the limelight on this one, I thought I might reclaim the top spot and give you my two penny worth first 😉 This has genuinely been the oddest thing. Max wore lenses when I first knew him and was quite vain about […]
November you can kiss my….
It seems November is determined to compete with April for crapola. It's been a really tough month. For the sake of argument we will include here the last two events of October. First there was my cork plugging op, which sadly did not go entirely as planned or hoped. To the best of my knowledge […]
A walk.
It shouldn't seem like a big thing, because it isn't. Only it is, because the last 3 years I've really struggled to go out without another adult. It's a much bigger problem than I've wanted to admit and I've hidden it better than I might have because there is usually Max or a friend to […]
The Voice.
I have been a very flawed parent over the years, busy, impatient, a little too wrapped in my own agenda, tired, easily annoyed. Three things have altered that until the current, not too bad model emerged; the endless companionship, support and influence of my husband Max, who is the calm ordered opposite of my flighty […]
I can see clearly now…
Here is Max’s account of the day of his Laser Eye surgery with Optical Express. I may possibly have annotated it a bit. Perhaps. The Day of Surgery So, the day of the eye surgery has come around, pretty quickly really and my overwhelming thoughts are “this isn’t really going to happen” and any time […]
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