Darling Jessica, This time four years ago, we didn’t know if we would even have four days with you – to have been blessed with four years is just amazing. What a rollercoaster those four years have been with all your hospital stays and heart surgeries. You have been through so much in your four… Read More
Most of us will have seen the heartbreaking images shared on social media and in the newspaper of the lifeless body of three-year old Aylan Kurdi, who was found washed up on a Turkish beach. An innocent child, just one of countless other children who have died trying to escape their war-torn home. I look… Read More
Last weekend, we took a trip back in time and found ourselves getting a taste of medieval life at the Magna Carta event at Chiltern Open Air Museum. Several tents were set up in the field, giving an insight into life in the 13th century. In one tent, the wealthy ladies were busy with their… Read More
It’s been a busy week this week – with Jessica’s birthday coming up this weekend and her party to organise, my to-do list has felt quite endless at times! It’s been one of those times when I remind myself that there are only so many hours in the day and to focus on what is… Read More
“Hello, this is my wife. She’s in labour, but don’t worry, she’s just going to sit over there and get on with it.” As introductions go, it was certainly memorable. My husband’s calm explanation as to why he’d brought his heavily pregnant wife to the set-up of an event was somewhat unusual. It certainly wasn’t… Read More
There’s a sense of melancholy that comes with the end of summer, an acute awareness of the passage of time and the realisation that no matter how much I want to slow it down, it continues to march on relentlessly. The changing of the seasons hits me harder at this time of year than it… Read More