I am the first to admit that I hate New Years Eve, and I would imagine that I’m not alone in that thought. Any occasion where you are expected to go out and have fun, whether you feel like it or not, instantly gets my back up and until last year, I hadn’t celebrated a…
I am the first to admit that I know very little about world news. I have very little knowledge of the situation in Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq and other Middle East countries, too many to count. I don’t read a newspaper, there is little opportunity to watch the news, and the snippets of information that…
There are many things that I find hard about being a parent. The exhaustion, the guilt, the never-ending worry and trying to juggle ten things at once. But the thing that I perhaps find the hardest to deal with is the constant feeling that, as parents, we are all being judged. It starts before they are…
It’s the same old cliché isn’t it, when someone tells you that they have wanted to be a certain profession from as far back as they can remember. You see it all the time on shows like Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor, singers telling us, “I was singing before I was out of…
I’ve never really understood just how desperate a person can be to feel well again until this last year. I’ve heard stories of people with chronic illness, debilitating conditions, even terminal illness, who have resorted to the most far-fetched, seemingly ridiculous measures, simply to try to feel better. And I never thought that I would…
Being ill sucks at the best of times and yet being ill when you’re a parent? There really is nothing worse. You have no choice but to carry on as normal, to deal with whiny, demanding children who insist on clambering all over you, screaming and shouting and preventing you from doing the one thing…