I’m A Shortlisted Finalist In The UK Blog Awards!
Thank you, Bird’s Eye Viewers – you rock! OH EM GEEEEEE!!! I am off-the-charts DE-LIGHTED!! Thank you so much from the bottom of my battered and oft-broken 40-something heart for voting for me in the UK Blog Awards 2018 and kicking off my New Year with the best news everrrr!! ☺️🎉 I was idly sitting on […]
Will You Fall Or Fly in 2024?
If you’ve not heard of Erin Hanson, check out her inspiring poetry on Instagram here[/caption] So, will you fall…or fly? There’s only one way to find out: JUMP! To kick off the New Year I’ve decided to take the leap into the unknown. In November I quit my full-time job to work on various passion […]
Menopause At 35 Turned My Life Upside Down
“We have your bloods back from the lab, Mrs…er…Walsh,” said the consultant at St Bart’s Hospital, London, looking up from his stack of papers and pushing his varifocals back up on the bridge of his nose. “The results are…extremely high.” I beamed. “Oh great!” I’d always been a reasonably studious schoolkid (I was in the […]
When “I Do” Becomes “I’m Done” : The Damage-Limitation Divorce Guide
My social media newsfeeds have been awash with a flurry of engagement announcements this Christmas: loved-up couples beaming contently at the camera, sparkling diamond rings proudly held aloft. Good luck to them, I say. Heaven knows they’ll need it. Nobody likes a naysaying numpty tarnishing the impending nuptials, but with 42% of marriages ending in […]
Pining For A Baby? The Pineapple Pin That Says ‘You’re Not Alone.’
I love to travel. Sometimes I even love to travel alone. I’ve backpacked solo around Thailand, no problem. I’m a grown-ass woman after all: big enough, savvy enough…yep, and ugly enough to take care of myself. Sure, there were moments of loneliness; occasions where I’d watch a particularly breathtaking sunset and wish there was […]
The Four-letter Word that Changes Everything
It’s not the one you’re thinking of, or any from the typical arsenal of word-weapons – the ones we humans launch at one another in moments of anger, when the red mist descends and none of the others are quite hitting their target. No, the four-letter word that insulted me recently was one that is […]
The Psychic
‘Tis this time of year, as the clocks go back, the nights draw in and Halloween looms, that the vivid imaginations of Earth-dwellers all over this wondrous planet of ours begin to conjure up images of witchcraft and wizardry; supernatural goings-on. For this blog, therefore, I thought I’d let you in on a real-life twisted […]
I’m on the cover of Woman’s Own magazine: “IVF Killed My Marriage”
Okay, so I’d rather I was on the cover of a magazine as the glamorous cover star rather than a sad caption alongside an image of me beaming away in my wedding dress, oblivious to the tough times ahead, but there it is. If someone had told me on that sunny day in Ibiza in […]
Minority Report: Them and (a much smaller) ‘Us’
When you think of a minority group, who do you think of? Those who are discriminated against because of their ethnicity, disability, religion or sexual orientation? So not me, then: a straight, white, working-class, able-bodied woman? If you see me walking down the street, dressed up to the nines to meet my friends for a […]
The Outfit I Will Never Wear Again
The dress was pure, unadulterated glamour: little silk flowers intricately hand-sewn onto an hourglass corseted bodice, embellished with hundreds of twinkling Swarovski crystals. My mega-watt smile as I turned slowly this way and that in the mirror to admire it was almost as dazzling; I was awash with joy and excitement. Perhaps the shock liquidation of […]