There are times when grief rears up and butts you in the head, often unexpectedly. Tomorrow is my son's 12th birthday. Last year, for...

I got a message this week that reminded me why I started writing this blog. It wasn't just as a vent for my emotions, but with the hope...

Today marks five months since Lauren died. Five months today we were driving back from Alderhey in stunned silence, almost fleeing the...

I don't think the true destruction of our mental health will be laid bare until the lockdown eases. Like many people I am furloughed. I...

One of the unexpected consequences to Lauren's death, is my inability to listen to any music without my heart breaking. Music has always...

Grief - 13th Century, from the French word grever, meaning to burden, and the Latin gravare, to make heavy. I've been considering Grief....

Facebook keeps sending me alerts to remind me I haven't added to my page for a while. There doesn't seem to be a button to respond "My...

It is expected that the government will today announce the lockdown will continue for at least 3 more weeks. Athough we want a return to...

Today marks 4 months since we said our final goodbyes to Lauren. 4 months since the consultants told us she'd suffered a catastrophic...

As we start the third week of lockdown I think I'm becoming a full blown hypochondriac. Every little symptom is blown out of all...

So the school holidays are here! It's abit of a strange feeling. Not helped by the fact that we should have been off on our family ski...

Week 2 of the lockdown and thankfully we are all still healthy. As yet no friends & family have been affected. I wanted to do an...

So it's official, British Summertime has begun. This must be the strangest start yet, certainly since the war. I'm aware that in these...

One small positive to come from the enforced shutdown, for me personally, has been my change in attitude to consumerism. When we were...

Over the past three and a bit months I've been attempting to find the good in every situation, it's almost like I've been in training for...

Well we finally got the news we knew was coming, stay at home! It won't make much difference to how our family has been over the last...

So we got Mothers day done! I had loads of messages of support, thankyou but in all honesty the day wasn't as bad as I thought it would...

It seems self absorbed to be writing about me, with all that is going on in the world. In a few hours the schools will shut, no-one...

I'm aiming to think about things other than Coronovirus. Mothers day is looming large on the horizon. My youngest was telling me that...

I've been trying very hard to keep the anxiety at bay. Yesterday I mainly cried and slept. Today I felt better, at first. Then the kids...