The (Wide-Awake) Elephant In the Room

It’s probably about time I tackled a theme that underpins a lot of what I talk about on this blog, but that so far I’ve managed to avoid talking about too much. Yep, you’ve guessed it. It’s the big fat horrible Sleep Monster. Those of you that know me well will have had to listen [...]

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On talking bread people and loosing my mind

Apologies in advance for the rather odd, inevitably disjointed post today. I have had, approximately, 7 hours broken sleep over the last 2 days leaving me in a rather strange, slightly hysterical ohh look there’s a monkey holding my brain type mood.  For those of you that missed my frantic, endless tweeting in attempts to stay sane over [...]

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Now and Then – Part 2

 So where was I? Oh yes, my contractions had stopped and started again. I had lost all hope of EVER having the baby and was sobbing for my mum, whilst simultaneously, in the future, I was sat eating Orios and watching something crappy on tv, while trying to ignore the incessant whining noise at my feet [...]

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Recipe For A Bad Mood

Add… 1 sick husband. Ok, a genuinely sick and suffering husband with 24 hour migraine and all night vomit-a-thon, poor love, but also A MAN with all the associated brave sighs and whimpers and inability to do a thing for himself. Thus systematically removing what little help I get during an average day and depriving me of [...]

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