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I will always love you

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Dear Child of Mine I want you to know that I will always love you. I loved you when you were the size of a grain of rice and your heart beat was undetectable. When you made me sick and took away my ability to tie my own shoe laces. The strongest motivator to go through two days of the most pain I have...

February 20, 2022
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February 20, 2022

I will always love you

Dear Child of Mine I want you to know that I will always love you. I loved you when...

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February 7, 2022

In the mirror

I started working for a charity last year that is focussed on seeing homelessness eradicated. Whilst I have always...

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January 30, 2022

The Middle

If I was to describe the relationship I currently have with my body, I would say that we’re not...

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January 8, 2019

Fight or flight

Well hello there. I think it might just be time to be back on here again. I’ve had ‘a...

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Life As We Know It

In the mirror

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I started working for a charity last year that is focussed on seeing homelessness eradicated. Whilst I have always been aware of homelessness and have been involved with charities that work with homeless or deeply impoverished people, I have lived a life that has come nowhere near what people suffer when their choices and resources are so diminished that they have to live on...

February 7, 2022
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Life in General

The Middle

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If I was to describe the relationship I currently have with my body, I would say that we’re not on speaking terms. This has only happened a few times in my life. Most of the time, we’re the best of friends. This time, there was no major falling out, no dramatic incident, no third-party indiscretion. That said, there were some warning signs she wasn’t...

January 30, 2022
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Someone Else Said

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Leo Tolstoy

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I will always love you

Dear Child of Mine I want you to know that I will always love you. I loved you when you were the size of a grain of rice and...

February 20, 2022
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Happy Women’s Day to my women

As I scrolled through Instagram this morning, it seemed that there was an usually large amount of love going out to women on my feed. It took a moment...

March 9, 2018
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The babies

Would I have been a better mother in the 70’s?

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Our children are six and seven years old. Both are at school. They can use forks. Conversation with them is coherent and interesting, sometimes illuminating and educational. One of them can wipe their bum, the other still prefers to let others take care of that.  Our family can walk 5km in about an hour. At least once a week, they make their breakfast without setting off the smoke alarm. OK, that’s cereal day. We are officially parents of children: no babies, no toddlers. Quite often, either Gareth or I will turn to the other and say these words; “I would never have talked to my parents like our children do to us.” This is often followed by a frustrated debate about why our children can be so disrespectful. Gareth leans towards our children being punks, I lean towards our skills being deficient. We settle on, maybe we’re being punk’d? I could be paranoid but I get the feeling that our parent’s generation are quietly wondering what all the fuss is about. Why do mum’s...

November 2, 2017
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Something for the Table

November 14, 2017

Oaty Millionnaire’s Slice

At the moment, I am not getting much opportunity to bake. I miss it. I need a school fundraiser...

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November 4, 2017

Rice Krispie Treats

At the moment I am on the Joe Wicks, aka The Body Coach, 90 Day SSS Plan.  I fancied...

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October 23, 2017

Old fashioned slice of sweetness

The Louise Cake is a classic Kiwi tea time slice. I imagine that it’s been around for decades, because...

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September 6, 2017

Family Pizza

I don’t want to sound like one of those smug women who brags about how she cooks everything from...

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Grimsby

Gareth and I don’t get many dates these days, so when we have them they are precious and not to be wasted.  To say the last one was wasted...

March 15, 2016
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