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Cobbled step and sandwiches. 

April 21, 2015 by

When I am old, (older) And you are grown, (more so) I’ll remember the day we sat on cobbled step, (warm but crowded) And ate sandwiches while killing time (how much time is left, I wonder?) The man on the tightrope, (balancing) Had a microphone and I thought, (musing) That back in my day they […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Trips Out, Writing

We don't talk about the SCBU days.

September 23, 2013 by

I’m writing today at Glow in the Woods about the reality of parenting after losing a child who lived his whole life in the care of the medical people we trust with our lives and who couldn’t save him. I don’t write much about the SCBU days. It’s still too painful to think about, let […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Grief, Thinking, Writing Tagged With: #glowinthewoods, babyloss, freddie, grief, scbu

The Food Frontline; how support changes futures.

March 11, 2013 by

Last year an amazing group of parent bloggers and I came together to support the trip that Sian went on to Niger, launching the #ShareNiger campaign to raise awareness of the plight of families struggling against drought and hunger. We now sponsor 11 beautiful children between us from Tera and the letters that come back […]

Filed Under: Charity, Writing Tagged With: #FoodFrontline, #shareniger, Enough Food for Everyone IF, Ethiopia, Global Hunger, WorldVision

A story.

December 18, 2012 by

Once upon a time there was a woman who had a garden. It was a good garden, bigger than many people could ever hope for, filled with beautiful flowers. None of the flowers were perfect, none of them were necessarily the rarest or most dazzling flowers in the world but it was hers and she […]

Filed Under: Grief, Writing Tagged With: child loss, dead baby maths, grief, grief olympics, infant loss, loss when you have other children

What I really learned at Cybher.

May 18, 2012 by

Last weekend I went to a conference designed for bloggers. I’ve been before to similar (as blogged previously when I went to BlogCamp and Cybermummy) but CybHer was designed specifically in response (I think) to some people feeling dissatisfied with Cybermummy being a little, shall we say, superficial. I sat next to Sian (CybHer’s erm.. […]

Filed Under: Charity, Thinking, Writing Tagged With: #shareniger, charity work, cybher, NIger, the girl effect, WorldVision

Hard won happy.

May 13, 2012 by

It was not possible to overcome the wanting. The wanting brought a foolish mistake and a serious error of judgement. The error of judgement brought our world crashing down. That crashed ended in a room and £30 a week and arguments and learning to talk, learning to forgive, learning to be grown ups. Learning to […]

Filed Under: Thinking, Writing Tagged With: babies, grief, happy, loss, love, marriage, relate

Second

February 6, 2012 by

Second son. Second chance. Second family. We’ve been luckier than anyone has any right to be. Lucky is a strange word to apply to a family who lose a child. Watching Ben uncurl – unfurl – is like having the clouds stripped from the earth and seeing all the beauty and imperfections of the world […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Freddie, Grief, Writing Tagged With: child loss, grief, infant loss, second, sleep is for the weak, writing workshop

A relationship with Oak

December 20, 2011 by

Of all my happiest memories, the garden of the house my grandparents lived in when I was growing up, is the place I remember with the most peace and joy. Oaklands. I spent weeks there, most often the only grandchild staying, caught up in a private, solitary world of my own imagination. I was the […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Thinking, Writing Tagged With: childhood memories, oak furniture, oaks

That life that was mine.

December 13, 2011 by

Fran and Amelie start the proper run of the pantomime they’ve been rehearsing today; six weeks of Sunday mornings morph into a run of 16 performances. They’ve experienced a shouty director who expects them to behave like pros (despite not actually being paid!) and the shock of finding themselves cut out of a dance because […]

Filed Under: Thinking, Writing Tagged With: building furniture, chair hire in London, hiring furniture

Dear So and So… the Annoying Research edition.

July 26, 2011 by

Be gentle with me. This is my first attempt at Dear So and So. I need to get some things off my chest. And yes, I know most of my irritation probably stems from crappy BBC reporting. Humour me. Working Mothers do no Harm to Children. Do you know how much it irritates me to […]

Filed Under: Thinking, Writing Tagged With: birth defects, bloody research, mothers who work, scientists who need to go out and get a proper job, stillbirth research on sleep position, stress in the womb

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