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I was going to write a new Christmas post this year… But this one, I keep coming back to, but it’s everything I want to say anyway! I’m seeing a lot of ‘have I done/done enough’ type posts, so I thought I’d tell you a Christmas story. It’s deeply personal and 100% true. As parents we put a lot on ourselves to make Christmas perfect for our children, but we overlook the bits that as children we…

No, sorry this isn’t an AC/DC post, that should read Back to Orlistat. I had a week off, it was glorious, I ate too much, drank too much and generally made an idiot of myself, in the best possible way. But now… I’m facing reality. 99.8kg. I weigh 99.8kg. It’s still a big number. It’s not as big as 114kg but it’s still pretty big. I still need to lose around 30% of my body weight but I’ve lost…

Two stones forward, one pound back…

So, after my phenomenal confession last week, I went on holiday 😁 We go to Stanwix every year, it’s comforting to know that we’re going somewhere that’s safe and we can give the girls, especially A (who has an ASD diagnosis) a bit more freedom than we can usually give her. The site is a bit of a contradiction, it’s quiet but busy, friendly but not intrusive and most importantly for A, it has a…

Recovery… I think

I thought I’d posted this, but no, it’s still in my drafts. It’s worth posting though. Even a few months on, if for no other reason than the fact I get a warm fuzzy feeling from it! Well… That was… Odd… In my previous job we dealt with incidents all the time, it was part of our primary function, everything dropped for an incident, we didn’t look at the clock, except to record the time or to…

To your health 💕

I was going to write about my day in a layby when my car broke down, it was a very boring, yet eventful and interesting day, I might get round to writing it up at some point! But another event has taken over and created a whole new perspective for me and my family. I feel it’s important to write about it and raise a little bit of awareness. The other Tuesday, Youngest decided she didn’t want to…

Hi peoples! My blogspot this time is going to be talking from a very personal perspective (what’s new lol). Writing this is very therapeutic for me and I’m hoping to get a bit of frustration out here too. Yesterday, I had an ‘interaction’ with a man. I have never spoken to him, didn’t know he even existed. I don’t know his name and I will probably never see him again. I’m hoping that he will…

It’s behavioural, they say, When she wants her ‘own way’, It’s behavioural, you’ve made her that way, She has to learn to do as you say. Is it behavioural? We whisper, Why isn’t she so like her sister? Did we falter by a whisker, And create our own resister? It’s NOT behavioural, we retort, There’s a problem of a sort, That we simply cannot resort, To punishing her as we ‘ought’. It’s…

It’s just a Facebook group…

I saw someone say this in a group the other day. And it’s really bothering me, so I figured I’d do what I always do and write about it. It’s just a Facebook group… but that group is where I ‘met’ and got to know my neighbours. We went out carol singing and even though we (I) was awful, it was fun and made those that can’t get out smile. It’s just a Facebook group… but they organised a rainbow…

I’m seeing a lot of stress lately from parents of school aged children who are being sent home packs of work from school that are unmanageable and are causing stress. I want to tell you about a flu epidemic in the early 90s, when I was in high school.

It’s in no way comparable with what’s happening now with COVID-19, but it was unsettling and difficult.

The school didn’t close but both…

First things first: this is not a pity-post. This is simply my reality that I wish to share.

I was first diagnosed with psoriasis when I was 11 and I’ve been in and out of specialist care ever since. I’ll talk about treatments later on.

Psoriasis is an autoimmune condition, which means that my immune system thinks there is something wrong and tries to fix it. Lots of other conditions work…

Beginning again, for beginners

Life begins at 40, so the saying goes.

The last few years have certainly brought about a lot of changes for me.

I think the most important change has been my psoriasis treatment. In a few short years, I’ve gone from almost full coverage and a brutal, but flexible treatment regime, to effectively cured, thanks to Stelaraat the cost of my reliability thanks to treatment side effects and…

A pound or 500g? Does it really matter? Really?

Public health opens your eyes in some very surprising ways.

When I was on maternity leave, I had a lot of contact with play workers, who looked after young families and identified gaps that could be filled to make life better.

They noticed that many families struggled to cook and make basic meals from scratch. So they organised a basic cookery course, provided ingredients and taught them to…

My weekend in 1984, by Lentilweaver, aged mid-40s…..

Yesterday was a very interesting day in many ways.

My husband took himself off to a gig in Glasgow, so I was in sole charge of our two WHILE THEY WERE AWAKE.  This resulted in us ‘customising’ some clothes and other crazy exploits, as I attempted to negotiate around various numbers of children whose stories adapted to whatever barrier I put in place and having no back up to double check with an…

View from the NE on Brexit.

This post was inspired by a friends Facebook post where she expressed a fear of the rising Far Right, in light of the extremely complex political chaos.

Obviously this is a difficult subject, fraught with problems when it’s being discussed.

In order to look properly at what’s happening, we need to disengage and look at bigger pictures.

Austerity was an EU policy. Whether the UK Parliament chose…

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