2020 has been a horrendously hard year for everyone. The PM briefing on Saturday was just the tip of the iceberg. Having been promised a Christmas with family was one thing, but it was nothing short of cruel to have all those plans scuppered less than a week before the day. But this is not […]
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You came into the world a year ago today – what a year that has been! Some days it feels like it was only yesterday when you were first put into my arms. You were so tiny and delicate – my hands were over half the size of your little body. Seven minutes after you
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When I moved back into my family home after four years of being hospitalised, I could think of nothing better than just returning. I was nineteen years old, I had been absent from our family home since I was fifteen. Just being able to be back there sounded like everything I wanted and more. It
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In ‘Dear Chronic Illness’, Pippa Stacey has compiled letters from sufferers to the diseases that they suffer with. Each person featured, talks to the various conditions that they suffer with, as if they were a person. A lot of chronic illnesses give invisible symptoms, and I found that’s the letters really kept the balance of
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It has now been six months since Felicity came into the world, and what a difference those months have made to my life. It’s been challenging, difficult and rewarding all at the same time. I spent the whole of my pregnancy panicking about how I was going to cope with a baby. I had always
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Alpha-Z is the latest book of short stories from The Lil’ Author Skool. It has a fantastic array of stories from children as young as six, to teenagers. There really is a story for everyone in this book and it is refreshing to see all the incredible imaginations at work. From six year old, Ellie
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I could have quite easily written a blog on this year, because so much of my life has changed in that time. As we come to the end of a decade, I thought it was a perfect time to reflect on more than just a year but how much my whole world has changed. A
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Dear Bug… So You Are Disabled AND a Mother? When I first became unwell in 2006, I was embarrassed to use a wheelchair. It reminded me how much my body was failing me, and I felt like everybody was watching me. I only managed to get out in the wheelchair a few times, and most
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I had a great response to the start of The Green Baby, so here I am with another post for you all! Since having Felicity, my eyes have been opened up to how we are affecting the planet. If we all make little steps of change then they will become big steps in protecting our
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News alert! Yes, you are reading it right! I am so pleased to announce that A Girl Behind Dark Glasses is one of the finalist for The People’s Book Prize 2019!! It was incredible seeing how much everyone on social media really got behind the book and kept voting. Your support means everything. I wrote
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