It’s Easter Monday and also the first anniversary of my mother’s death, but it’s pretty unlikely that she’s going to be rising from the dead any time soon. We like to think of her reunited with our father – her […]
I’m sitting in a freezing cold house. My boiler has broken down – on the coldest day of the last 10 years. Bloody typical. Weirdly, its issues like this that slightly tip me over the edge of my usual just-about-can-do-it-all-single-mother-coping-mechanisms. […]
FINALLY we managed a family get-together for my mother now that lockdown has been eased and she’s had her two vaccinations. I went and picked her up and brought her back to my house where she hasn’t been for 18 […]
I thought I’d write a letter to my 23 year old daughter on International Women’s Day to offer her some sage advice from an older, wiser woman who has been round the block a few times and got the scars, […]
Happy Mother’s Day to you all…even though I’m thinking about all those people out there who don’t have their mothers anymore, or who aren’t mother’s themselves. It pains me that the day has become quite so commercial and tonight, I […]
It was “Visit Your Relatives Day” on Friday and visit my relatives did….loads of them…it was my mother’s birthday on Sunday and so we held a sleepover in her honour on Saturday night at my house along with all three […]
SO PROUD of my son. He is actually getting paid to play football!! It is his dream come true. He was scouted from his university team and is now playing for a PROPER CLUB when he can fit it in […]
I feel as if I’m on borrowed time. I managed to get the day off work today so that I could spend time with my mother and my daughter at one of my favourite spots in the whole wide world. […]
I am having a moment….a kids growing up too fast moment and I wanted to write something on being a mother for a minute because I’m feeling a little bit scared about the prospect of losing another child in October […]
FAMILY AFFAIRS SO once again, I’ve been too busy to pay any attention to my blog or even more importantly to anyone else’s blog. I am a blog disaster at the moment. No time to feed the embers and NO […]
THIS is why I don’t care that I am completely broke post holiday. We had such an amazing time in Italy all together and the following Instagram picture my daughter posted makes me very, very happy (and good that I […]
