22 weeks 154 days 3696 hours 221,760 minutes … Shielding is OVER! For now anyway. I have finally reached the end of my shielding sentence without going completely insane. Well, mostly. It’s been a proper rollercoaster (scuse the cliché) of emotions, highs lows, lots of watching The Repair Shop on repeat (new addiction) and
This started off as a bit of a brain dump into how I was feeling, but as I was writing I realised there must be so many of us mums and dads going through these exact feelings right now. Today is my first born’s last day of nursery. Not a big deal to many
This post is particularly relevant to me because it’s something I’m often in complete conflict over. One day my Instagram will be the positive motivational place I want it to be, other days it’ll be the standard day to day grind. It will even be a little woeful at times in my bid to keep
The Eat Out to Help Out scheme started on Monday 3rd August, with restaurants, cafes and coffee shops able to offer great discounts on food and drink. The scheme has been put into place by the UK Government in a bid to help out the hospitality trade, which suffered hugely through the pandemic lockdown. Running
If the violence with which I have to twerk just to get my skinny jeans over my derrière is anything to go by, I’ve put on weight over lockdown. I’m not overly panicked by it and can identify my incessant baking as a pretty definite reason. I’m not normally guilty of schadenfreude, but the fact
Over the last few years the idea of body positivity has really taken off and entered the mainstream. You only have to search the hashtag on Instagram to be met with millions of pictures of people of all shapes and sizes. But you know what? I have a problem with this body positivity thing. Before
Friend – “What’s it like to have CF?” Me – “What’s it like to be healthy?” Can a normal healthy person really say what it’s like to be a healthy person? Can I really say what it’s like to have CF? This CF life is my normal, as you being healthy is your normal. With having
Black Lives Matter is a movement – not a moment. Which is exactly why it needs continuous support. It has been moving to see the huge amount of people taking part in anti-racism protests. Yet the buzz around Black Lives Matter seems to have quietened and there is still a long way to go. Institutional
As much as I’m looking forward to getting back to normal after four months of living in lockdown, the thought of it makes me anxious. I’ve always been a worrier since I was a child. When I was little, I was given a book called ‘Worried Arthur’, which was the story of a little penguin
27 years ago, I was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis, an progressive illness which had the life span of 18 years old at the time in 1993. Since then, the median age of life expectancy has risen, treatments have changed, new medicine has been introduced to my body by the year and there is still no
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22 weeks 154 days 3696 hours 221,760 minutes … Shielding is OVER! For now anyway. I have finally reached the end of my shielding sentence without going completely insane. Well, mostly. It's been a proper rollercoaster (scuse the cliché) of emotions, highs lows, lots of watching The Repair Shop on repeat (new addiction) and wearing pillows for a lockdown…
This started off as a bit of a brain dump into how I was feeling, but as I was writing I realised there must be so many of us mums and dads going through these exact feelings right now. Today is my first born's last day of nursery. Not a big deal to many people whose children have grown…
This post is particularly relevant to me because it’s something I’m often in complete conflict over. One day my Instagram will be the positive motivational place I want it to be, other days it’ll be the standard day to day grind. It will even be a little woeful at times in my bid to keep it real and honest, because…
The Eat Out to Help Out scheme started on Monday 3rd August, with restaurants, cafes and coffee shops able to offer great discounts on food and drink. The scheme has been put into place by the UK Government in a bid to help out the hospitality trade, which suffered hugely through the pandemic lockdown. Running every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday…
If the violence with which I have to twerk just to get my skinny jeans over my derrière is anything to go by, I’ve put on weight over lockdown. I’m not overly panicked by it and can identify my incessant baking as a pretty definite reason. I’m not normally guilty of schadenfreude, but the fact that lockdown weight gain seems…
Over the last few years the idea of body positivity has really taken off and entered the mainstream. You only have to search the hashtag on Instagram to be met with millions of pictures of people of all shapes and sizes. But you know what? I have a problem with this body positivity thing. Before I start, I should say…
Friend - "What's it like to have CF?" Me - "What's it like to be healthy?" Can a normal healthy person really say what it's like to be a healthy person? Can I really say what it's like to have CF? This CF life is my normal, as you being healthy is your normal. With having CF, I'll never know what…
Black Lives Matter is a movement - not a moment. Which is exactly why it needs continuous support. It has been moving to see the huge amount of people taking part in anti-racism protests. Yet the buzz around Black Lives Matter seems to have quietened and there is still a long way to go. Institutional racism is engrained into our…
As much as I’m looking forward to getting back to normal after four months of living in lockdown, the thought of it makes me anxious. I’ve always been a worrier since I was a child. When I was little, I was given a book called ‘Worried Arthur’, which was the story of a little penguin who worried about everything, even…
27 years ago, I was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis, an progressive illness which had the life span of 18 years old at the time in 1993. Since then, the median age of life expectancy has risen, treatments have changed, new medicine has been introduced to my body by the year and there is still no sign of a cure -…