My New Year’s Resolution: Work Less, Live More
It’s around this time, when my bodily constitution is around 40% alcohol, 20% pigs in blankets and the remainder squishy, squidgy Camembert rolling over my waistband, that the post-Christmas regret sets in and I frantically scribble down a list of all of my favourite pastimes, whack the word STOP in front of them, and […]
Speaking Out About Sexual Abuse: The Seed Of Change
photo credit A child is like a tiny seed; a […]
No Goa-n Back This Time…
My last trip to Goa saw me tripping like a hippy at a hilltop rave. Unfortunately, this was not due to imbibing some fantastical mind-bending substance and having a “spiritual awakening” – you know, the kind those faux-Rasta gap yah brats bang on about down the pub on their return…to Kingston (Upon-Thames, not Kingston […]
Cancer Isn’t Soft, So Why Is This New Approach?
Cervical Cancer Facts:– there are over 3000 new cases diagnosed in the UK annually– it is responsible for 900 UK deaths a year– cervical screening rates are in decline, with more than 1 in 3 women ignoring their letter– diagnoses of cases in women aged 25-29 are the highest since 1999; up 60% in the […]
An Evening with The Eve Appeal
My regular blog readers will know that women’s reproductive health and gynae cancers are matters close to my heart, having shared my cervical cancer experience and subsequent infertility with you here on my blog and also via the Huffington Post. So I was particularly proud and excited when the invitation to attend an event at The […]
Familiarity: Contempt or Content?
It’s the age-old routine: girl meets boy, they fall hopelessly in love, move in together, get married, maybe have a couple of kids….then spend the rest of the relationship bickering relentlessly over whose turn it is to cook/clean/take the rubbish out/(insert tedious menial task here).Gradually the humdrum and repetition of everyday life erodes the excitement […]
Costa Rica Chica
My fourth blog, written in February 2016, documenting the adventures of the 3 musketeers (ok, volunteers, but that sounded better): De Mama (my mum), Andy (my partner) and I, as we travelled to San Jose, Costa Rica, to help disadvantaged children living in the capital, having fundraised in the preceding months. We then travelled around […]
Thailand: Sam Goes Solo
My third blog, Sam Goes Solo (aka No Emotional Thais: New Beginnings…Happy Endings?) was written in 2014, when I went travelling around the Thai islands on my tod…. www.samgoessolo.blogspot.com Sam x Sam’s other blogs: If You Booze, You Lose Costa Rica Chica Life: A Bird’s Eye View No Emotional Thais: Sam Goes Solo […]
Mummy Mission
My second blog, Mummy Mission, was a short-lived infertility blog; the blog may have been short, but the journey was looooooong (7 years to be exact)…….. www.mummymission.blogspot.com Sam x Sam’s other blogs: […]
World Wide Walsh
My first ever blog, written September 2008 – March 2009 :A 6-month round-the-world backpacking adventure with my then-husband Liam… www.worldwidewalsh.blogspot.com Sam x Sam’s other blogs: If You Booze, You Lose Costa Rica Chica Life: A Bird’s Eye View No Emotional Thais: Sam Goes Solo Mummy Mission World Wide Walsh: Around the World in 180 […]