Or as Ben better put it, see you later. All my love always, Your Girl xx
Goodbye, Dad
Category: My Chatter
Guess Who Kicked Cancer’s Butt?
After six months of taking it easy on an extended sabbatical my brother is finally back home. Okay, so if I’m honest it wasn’t quite a fun, relaxing trip or anything. It was a fight against leukaemia. When he was first diagnosed I was trying to reassure the children that Jim would… Read More
Losing My Normal
It’s gone 9pm and I am sitting listening to nothing but silence around me. It’s a novelty, this silence thing. I am used to being surrounded by people and with the bustle of children following me from the moment I wake up until not long before I go to bed. Silence is… Read More
Spring Picnics and Family: The Perfect Combination
There is something quite appealing about the first sunny days after a long, dark winter. As I look out of the window now it could all have been an illusion but, for a few days at least, we could have been forgiven for thinking that spring was well under way and the… Read More
Today someone will save my brother’s life in just 2 minutes. Now I will show you how to do the same
November 13th 2015 would be the first date to turn our family’s lives upside down in the months to come. My brother Jimmy – a fit and healthy sporty type, a lecturer of public services, a gym regular and a hardened anti-smoking advocate – was admitted to hospital after experiencing a… Read More
Life is changing and I don’t like the way that it’s going
Thursday 24th March was the day our family was due to be setting off for little over six weeks of fun in the sun. We should have been driving out of the Eurotunnel, making our way across Germany in anticipation of the weeks ahead where we would be discovering new countries and experiencing… Read More