It feels like forever since I wrote anything from the heart on here. That may be setting expectations quite high for this blog post… I’m just going to write and see what happens…. A general catch up on life as it were. Can’t complain really, which means I am just about to self induce a…

It struck me last week, that as a family, we have lived with Type 1 diabetes for almost half my daughter’s lifetime.  Certainly she doesn’t remember a world without daily insulin does, carb counting and being hooked up to at least two medical sensors at any time. Doesn’t sound like much – but you ask…

Let me start by saying I know I have probably written this blog before. But if I am foolish enough to keep doing the same stupid thing, then I can damn well use it as blog fodder. We are in a heatwave. I know this because I have talcum powder stains on the floor from…

I have read many posts lately about the last time. The last time you hold your son’s hand on the school run, the last time you read them a bedtime story.  When they are still small enough to bathe in the sink. The general gist being that every moment is one we should savour and…

Aging can be a real bastard. I remember older women warning me when I was younger to appreciate all I had. My boobs that were pert, my chin that was hairless, my eyesight which was perfect. I ignored them all, I thought I was pretty set for life. Then I aged. Just a bit at…