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Ted

This time last year, we were in Spain on a family holiday. Ted had been so looking forward to it. He’d been learning Spanish for three years and was really keen to speak with the locals. He loved that holiday, and the rest of us thoroughly enjoyed it too. We didn’t know it would be …

Finding the joy

It’s been a truly awful week here in Manchester. Awful. I have spent a few days in a weird sort of wallow. Sorrow for my fellow Mancunians, despair at the state of the world, anxiety about a whole host of things. How do you tackle those types of feelings and prevent them pulling you down …

#WeAreManchester

It’s 2am on 23rd May 2017. I have been glued to the news and social media channels since just after 10.30pm last night as news of an ‘incident’ began to emerge. The incident was just a few miles from here, at Manchester Arena. The arena is place I’ve been to many times, situated next to a …

Barbados from above

It may be a fairly small island, but there is plenty to do and see in Barbados. We spent a couple of weeks there and had the most amazing holiday. As we went with extended family we were fortunate enough to be able to do some great child-free activities, including a helicopter tour of the …

40 weeks

11th August.  Today was my due date for baby number three. I think I knew this morning that I’d be going to bed still pregnant, but I’m one of life’s optimists so there was always that little bit of hope. I’ve been preoccupied for the last couple of days with thoughts of impending labour, the …