I was working in Leeds last week, and pottering around the shops one evening I found myself in a bead shop. (It’s the magpie in me. I simply cannot walk past a window full of sparkly.) There were the usual trays of teeny tiny seed beeds and sheeny shiny crystal beads, the racks of findings [...]
As the cancer survivor we are, ourselves, always very concerned about what to say and what not to say. About how to tell people how we’re feeling but without being too self-absorbing or showing that we’re scared and frightened. We’re also, at times, worried that if we ask for too many favours now how will we ask [...]
Three weeks from now – if all of the ducks currently shuffling around waiting for someone to tell them what to do actually get themselves into a line – we will be moving. Well, sort of. Joy will already be ensconced in Northumberland with her Grandma and Granda, as she starts her new school on [...]