Wow what a countdown. After a long consideration with Danny and my family I’ve decided it’s probably a better decision to let people know that my surgery was last week booked for this Monday 12thNovember. The alternative of suddenly going quiet, friend’s getting freaked out and them getting all sorts of worried messages seemed a […]

Over the last 6+ weeks my thank you’s might be getting a little tiresome by now but in addition to my ridiculous family and friends pulling out all the stops there have been some businesses and organisations that have gone beyond generosity in their kindness to me. Some are people I know but others are […]

  Click here for a little video that takes me back to THAT smile So this is the hardest post I’ve yet to write. As many will have seen on social media Danny and I not-so-secretly got married on Thursday in hands down the most magical day (alongside Loli’s home birth) I’ve ever experienced. It […]

I couldn’t not write about this after the unreal efforts made by my beautiful girls. For a few years some girlfriends and I have met every few months or more if needed and held what is called a Sister Circle. Yes it sounds wafty and to be honest it probably is a bit but it’s […]

I’m writing this shattered from what seems like an endless day of preparing for the appointment, trying to listen and take in every word from our Neurosurgeon and then talking and processing it all with Danny after so I might not sound particularly spritely but I’m actually in a really good place. There were several […]

To think I’ve been living in my new world for a whole month now is baffling. I’m not going to lie I really do miss elements of my old world – the freedom, the independence, the responsibility, the ability to put some order to the chaos and most of all the ability to look after […]

…is about as much French I have ever been able to say despite learning it for 5 years at school but there is nothing better fitted for the beautiful hosts of the apartment we have just rented in Yviers near Bordeaux, Carol and Ian. They were more than wonderful and their place was perfect. Obviously […]

Yesterday was horrific. Truly awful. Up there with one of the worst times of my life. Well apart from the tiny bits when we actually got to celebrate Danny’s birthday. Before I explain more I should say one thing I probably wouldn’t read this if you’re really claustrophobic and/or have an MRI coming up. Claustrophobia […]

Clearly at the moment my judgements are off. I don’t trust anything, especially my own mind and I am constantly looking to family and friends to reassure and validate what has just happened in the moment before. The vast majority of time this is a straight forward eye contact, nothing unusual here reassuring look. A […]