Category: Uncategorized
-
Labels Belong On Objects NOT People!
Firstly, I’d just like to apologise to my readers for not posting for a few weeks. The inevitable happened and I finally contracted covid after 2 and a half years of managing to escape it. All is fine now and I’m well again, thankfully! I felt compelled to come on and blog today after Supernanny,…
-
ADHD – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Discrimination
This week has made me realise how prevalent disability discrimination really is in 2022. Throughout the last year of my daughters college course, she was constantly told that she was not allowed to return the following year, but we never really received an explanation as to why. Half way thorough her last academic year, she…
-
Queen Elizabeth II – Queen of Hearts
This week has been one if the saddest weeks in British History, we lost our longest reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth II aged 96 years old. Queen Elizabeth II had reigned for over 70 years. For most of us, she was the only reigning monarch we had ever known, the face we were guaranteed to see…
-
Born Too Soon – My Premature Birth Story.
It was 2004 when I found out I was expecting my second child, I was 21. I already had a wonderful son who had just turned 2. The birth of my son had been the ideal birth, I’d given birth at 38 weeks after a 23 and a half hour labour. I’d laboured without pain…
-
How do you fight mental health stigma?
This subject is extremely close to my heart, not only because I have struggled with my own mental health, but because I’ve seen friends struggle too. Friends who if you knew them, you would never have guessed. So, how do you fight mental health stigma? It’s a perplexing process. The thing with mental health is…
-
Why doesn’t she just leave?
Trigger warning – Domestic Violence & Abuse I was 16 years old when I established my first proper relationship. He was 3 years older than me. At first, things were great, I thought I’d found true love. I thought I’d found the man I was going to spend the rest of my life with. The…
-
ADHD – Attention Defecit Hyperactivity Daughter
ADHD, we’ve all heard of it, but do we truthfully understand what it is? A little back story – My pregnancy was going well, albeit a little pregnancy nausea and sciatica. At 20 weeks gestation we found out we were having a baby girl. We were so excited as we already had a toddler son.…
-
What is happy?
Following on from my ‘about me’ introduction. I’m a 39 year old single, full time working mum. As a little girl, I had dreams of marrying a handsome prince, having children and living in a castle without a care in the world. Although as I grew up, I knew this wasn’t a realistic dream (well,…
Imperfectly Perfect 