When you’ve actually had enough

Sure there’s the shock phase, the sadness phase, the anxiety phase… but what about the phase when you’ve quite simply had enough. I think I’ve reached that point. There’s only so many times that you can laugh life off as ‘why does this shit keep happening to me?’ before it’s not even funny anymore. I…

When your dog is your life

An appreciation post for my beautiful boy, Oscar. When you go through a bad time in life, there’s always someone or something you can count on to make you feel a bit better. For me it’s my teddy, Cody, who I’ve had since I was born and is the perfect snuggle partner, and my darling…

When you find out your dad has cancer

OK, ideally Step 1: don’t let this be the very day that you put your mum into a nursing home. Probably one of the hardest days of my life so far was to have to put my mum into a nursing home (finally, this was a relief for everyone in my family!) but to also…