Here’s a confession: on the occasional Saturday night when most of the children are in bed, Mike and I like to pop open a bottle of wine or two and spend the evening listening to old favourites and the just plain cheesy songs from the 80s. Cait joins in. Ben goes to his room.… Read More
Just hours after I hit ‘publish’ on my post last night in which I updated on the abseil that wasn’t and announced our plans to fly in a hot air balloon this morning, we received notice that our flight had been cancelled due to ‘low clouds and poor visibility’. You can see what… Read More
Let me begin this post by introducing you to my friend Claire. She’s going to curse and kill me for this photo but I’ve already hit ‘publish’ so you’ll know all about her shortly. (The good stuff only, I promise, Claire). Well, we’re back home again and what an amazing time we have had.… Read More
In the last few weeks of my brother’s life he talked a great deal about what he wanted me to remember, what he wanted me to pass on to the children and what he wanted me to do. Through the simple incidence of being my little brother Jimmy knew that I would struggle with losing him… Read More
I think that it’s fair to say that 2016 hadn’t been the kindest of years. This time last year my brother had just come out of a coma, just one of the many hurdles he needed to leap in a bid to beat leukaemia. We lost Jimmy to the bastard disease in November, ten… Read More
It is hard to believe that February will see Tim turning a massive three years old. It is also hard to believe that during that time he has never had his hair cut. Well, not that hard to believe, actually. I mean, have you seen the state of it lately? Which is why, after… Read More