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How to flush
While I was clearing out pre-move, I found a lot of cancer paperwork that I happily jettisoned….. appointment letters, leaflets, information booklets, all went into the recycling. Some things I kept,...
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Joy and Hope
Joy has been campaigning for a dog for about 8 years now. It was an easy ‘no’ while we were in London and she lived between our home and her Dad’s. The ‘no’ became more complex when we were moving to...
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Message in the snow
Joy was out dog walking before I went out yesterday. Which meant that I was greeted by this in the drive when I ventured forth: I wonder what all the people driving by will think? I hope it makes them...
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More cake
The Big News broke while I was away training in Edinburgh. When I got home, at about 8pm, I was met by Joy, who had baked a surprise for me. (The cupcakes are stuck to a glass chopping board with...
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Since the book deal, several people have said something along the lines of ‘Will you still talk to me when you’re famous?’ To which the answer is (a) I’m not sure I’m actually going to be famous, but...
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15.
I can’t quite believe it, but today my girl is 15. Yup. A year since this post. Joy’s fifteenth year has been an action-packed one. She’s finally achieved her lifetime ambition, and got a dog, the...
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Another anniversary
This is the season of anniversaries for us. Alan and I will celebrate 8 years of marriage and 13 years since what, in retrospect, we consider to be our first date (although at the time it was simply a...
View ArticleBah! revisited: It’s not as cold as I thought
My Grandma Breeze had a five year diary and always said that one of the things she liked about it was the fact that every day she would look back to see what was happening this time last year. I’ve...
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16 today
It’s 16 years today since Joy, my bright and beautiful girl, came in to the world. She gets lovelier, more confident, more mature, every day. She could, in theory, do all sorts of stuff today. At 16,...
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Somehow, 17
Somehow, my girl is 17 today. In the last year I’ve watched her start to find the woman she will soon be. I’ve watched her work hard, be successful, make choices about her education with a...
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