Take Everyday as it Comes

17/10/2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

I’m going to let you into a little secret about how I’ve got through the majority of the year. I stopped thinking long-term. We like to think long-term don’t we. Us humans. We have a picture in our heads about how our lives, in general, will turn out. We like to imagine what it will […]

I can’t be there

07/09/2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

I wasn’t there when Chris was told by our GP he had a tumour. He went to the appointment by himself. If I’m honest I don’t think at that point either of us believed that it would ever be anything really serious. Really life changing. I was at work. He rang me. It was the […]

Month in a Minute – August 2016

06/09/2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

August. Turned out to be a strange old month and I can’t quite put my finger on why. I had lots of plans to get things done, organised, but the list is still very long and I am still no closer to the house being sorted than I was at the start of summer holidays. […]

The Fear of the Fall

04/07/2016.Reading time 8 minutes.

Yesterday I went roller skating. I haven’t been in roller boots since I was a tween/early teen. We have, some may say stupidly, booked a roller skating party for Lily’s birthday, even though she has never roller skated before. She was insistent about what she wanted to do so we decided it would probably be […]

Month in a Minute – June 2016

30/06/2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

June has been a month of adjustments and celebrations. June has been the month we have experienced summer and winter often on the same day! We have begun, quite quickly, to adjust to our new normal. I returned to work after a 3 week break, 2 to be with Chris whilst he was in hospital […]