I was at Glastonbury this year and for once, it was HOT!! The heat was tough but I drank plenty of (non alcoholic) fluids to stop the dreaded dehydration and having a few bag changes as the hot weather didn’t do my ostomy bag much good! I unfortunately had a crap experience (!) with the toilets, and it […]
I LOVE photographs, I have thousands, both on my phone, on hard drives, in albums, on the walls and in boxes hidden away. I adore looking through them and remembering brilliant times and revelling in just how small and precious the kids were. Now they are teenagers. And honestly, they don’t really want me to […]
One of my favourite parts of everything to do with So Bad Ass is that I get to do talks all over the world about IBD, ostomies, disability, parenting and body positivity and so when I was asked by our local Scouts group if I would come in and talk to their Cubs about disability, […]
Last summer I was contacted by Transport for London and a TV company about doing some secret filming and trialling their ‘Please offer me a seat’ badges. The ‘Please offer me a seat’ badge and card for people who find it difficult to stand when using public transport. The badge and accompanying card were created following […]
Today is National Sister Day and so I thought I would do a little post about my big sister Lisa. She lives in Sydney, Australia and I miss her every single day! We are ten years apart in age and when I was younger, I always looked up to her so much. I don’t remember […]
This year, Timm, the kids and I headed off for a week at Glastonbury festival and had a whale of a time! We hadn’t been with the kids in 10 years and so it was lovely to revisit such an awesome place with our now teenagers, it was a lot less stressful than taking three […]
I have been quite open on here about the ups and downs of this journey of mine, through meds, hospital stays, 5 surgeries, months of recovery and the multitude of things going wrong, I have documented the lot. There are times when I feel positive and upbeat and other times when I feel thoroughly defeated. […]
My talk for the Steel Belles WI in Sheffield about body positivity, ostomies, feminism, body hair and being fat. Probably NSFW due to my sweary Northern gob… You can buy the t-shirt I am wearing here and £2.50 from every sale goes to Purple Wings Charity.
Do you have an inny or and outie? That’s a normal belly button type question as we know that people are all different (I’m an inny just so you know, but with the amount of surgeries I have had, it is not the one that Mother Nature blessed me with!) It’s odd as we totally […]
“You have such a perfect family!” I got told this after sharing photos of our trip to Glastonbury this year and so I thought I would share a few pics of my perfect family. We never argue, the kids are always on perfect behaviour, our home is a sanctuary of calm, peace and love. There […]