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  • Gemma

    January 13, 2025 by

    Sometimes something compels you to write. I have not written in a long time but now I need to write. Nearly 7 years ago I had my last day of chemo. My mam and sister sat with me as we cried looking at the monitor displaying the light and the beep which meant my chemo… Read more

  • The Twins

    January 23, 2022 by

    I have never written a blog about the Twins before. Thomas and Ellen my two beautiful babies who arrived into the world too early and left soon after. But for some reason I have spent many hours in the last while reliving event’s nearly 21 years ago and asking questions to which I know there… Read more

  • Legs

    January 9, 2022 by

    I never had the best pair of legs. In fact my husband often said he had seen better legs in the zoo. It’s ok I was never offended as this was a private joke between us. But my legs were strong. At one point I could run 10 miles including uphills, I could clamber up… Read more

  • The Book

    January 3, 2022 by

    Hello. What do I start with. Don’t know really, but over the last many months I just knew I had to start again. Or, I suppose continue, yes that is it,the continuation thankfully of my very Ordinary Life. I read back now on my own writing and sometimes it is difficult to believe that that… Read more

  • Corona.. My thoughts on us.

    March 31, 2020 by

    We see the best in people. We see the worst in people. Most of us are coming together Some of us long to be apart. Most of us want to beat this. Some of us want to just blast everything.:And so it goes. I just want to buy three 16 packs of toilet roll. I… Read more

  • Hope

    March 20, 2020 by

    Sometimes it is so hard to know what to say and sometimes so easy. Now is a combination of both. Here we are, all of us together but so far apart, confused, scared, lonely, bored, stressed, emotional but I hope above all hopeful. Today I sat on my sofa and cried. My mam rang me… Read more

  • Feeling frightened

    February 12, 2020 by

    Hi all, you know sometimes the wind is taken out of your sails. You are happily trodding along doing your best to live your life with positive vibes, trying to look at cancer as being a pest that invaded you, curled back into its shell like a rotten sneaky snail, and then may or may… Read more

  • Times are a Changing.

    February 7, 2020 by

    Friday night 7th Feb 2020. A big election for my country to take place tomorrow.. So if you know nothing about Irish politics as I don’t, I’ll just give a very simple snap shot… For many many years it’s been like two groups of people who have had control at different times, normally one on,… Read more

  • Sisters, Sisters, never been such devoted sisters. ❤️

    January 18, 2020 by

    Today I was in the gym, most likely the fattest person in the gym, but probably one of the happiest.You see the gym that I am a member of, a huge proportion of clients are students in the nearby college. Magnificent, georgous, young kids, the most gorgeous gym pance and tops, big ear phones.. I… Read more

  • New Year , New You ?

    January 12, 2020 by

    And so here we are january 12th 2020. We are all going to be so new, so determined, so positive, so gung ho. We are going to change the world, we are going to just make this our year. Yes we are all feeling compeled to make all those big promises to ourselves as follows:… Read more

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