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  • Family

    Our cool caravan – an update

    Many of you will know already that at the end of last summer we decided to buy a caravan. It’s a tourer, second hand and in good condition but in need…

  • Family, Uncategorized

    Caravanning – a brave new world

    We’ve bought a caravan. It’s a four-berth tourer, for those in the know, complete with orange and green upholstery, folding bunk beds, and a shower. Never has such a statement caused…

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    Family, Loss

    Losing My Dad

    Now here is a chapter that I never thought I would write so soon. Earlier this month, on 4 September 2018, my dad died. It was sudden. His health had been…

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    Loss

    My little girl’s grief: ‘I miss daddy’

    ‘I miss daddy’, ‘I want daddy’ and ‘where’s daddy?’ are things I hear every single day from my little girl. When my husband died, my concern for how our children would…

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    Loss

    Six months and looking for inspiration

    It’s funny how these little milestones don’t really mean anything but when you sit and think about them, they feel so major. It’s been six months now since Rog died. That’s…

  • Florence and Sylvanian Families
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    Sylvanian Families giveaway

    If Sylvanian Families had been around when I was young, I can tell you I would have had an obsession with them I’m sure. I used to love little toys and…

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    Sunday Stars

    Sunday Stars 21 June 2015

    It’s been a while I know, but I’m taking over the reins for the Sunday Stars blog linky this week along with Katie from Mami 2 Five. She and most of the…

  • Family

    Home time

    We’ve just spent our first weekend at home together as a family in months. As I wrote last week, my husband Roger has been a patient at our local hospice and…

  • Family, Loss

    From hospital to hospice

      Tomorrow I get to stay overnight with my husband. It won’t be the night away we’d hoped for, in a rural B&B or chi-chi city centre hotel, but it will…

  • Uncategorized

    Looking forward to 2015

    I started writing a post about my highs and lows of 2014, but frankly, I’ve had a few sloe gins and it was all getting a bit maudlin. So instead, here’s…

  • Pictures

    My week in pictures #3

    Here’s a snapshot of what I’ve been up to lately. My pictures are dominated by Halloween, owing to my first born’s obsession with it and the fact that we had a…

  • Family

    Party hats and darling dolls

    It’s just hit me, tomorrow is July and it’s less than two weeks until my baby gal turns one. Better get organising, as first born has been talking about the party…