I visited my consultant yesterday (yes, on a Saturday because despite the reports, we DO have an NHS on the weekend!) I’ve been having stomach pains, feeling very tired and more worrying, some weird swellings in my stomach. I knew what he was going to say, but it didn’t make it any less devastating when […]
#SeeMySelfie is a month long social experiment/photography project in which participants explore self representation, acceptance, audience and identity through the medium of self portrait. The project is a collaboration between Girl Gang Manchester and Girl Gang Sheffield, running nationally for the month of May, going on to be an exhibition and photography book later in […]
If you follow me on Facebook and twitter, you may have seen that I have had a blockage in my stomach for the past couple of days. It started with crampy stomach ache and a realisation that my ileostomy bag had not been filling as it usually does, it was very empty and the stuff […]
I have three kids aged 15, 13 and 11. From the outside, I appear to have it all in hand. My kids are polite, friendly and fun to be with. I have managed to get to this point without losing them (apart from that one time on Blackpool Pier), killing them in a stupidity accident […]
Quentin Letts wrote in his Daily Mail column this week about a ‘talkshow war’ between Andrew Marr and Robert Peston. Andrew Marr had a stroke a year ago and Letts decided to name him “Captain Hop-Along” because apparently journalism now consists of reverting to a 10 year old school yard bully. Mocking disability is NOT […]
One of my fondest memories as a child is of my nannan’s garden. She grew flowers and plants that were beautiful, but also fruit and veg, I remember eating strawberries with her straight from the ground, our fingers and lips sticky and red with the juice. My nannan’s garden and home was a place of […]
When you have a chronic illness, one of the things that cause guilt and stress is letting people down, I hate that I am sometimes so slack and have to say no to plans, often at the last minute. To anyone I let down, I am sorry. But please don’t stop inviting me… I know it […]
Yesterday was a whirlwind of awesome! I appeared on ITV’s morning show This Morning and got to meet the very wonderful Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby and talk about my all time favourite subject, poo! I was invited on by TV and radio personality Judi Spiers, who along with her husband, invented a product to […]
I’d like this post to just say ‘BECAUSE FUCK YOU!” but I’m going to try and be a little more level headed. Which is difficult when I’ve just read a post on mumsnet by a charming person called Frikkadilla… I should probably pop a warning in here to say this post is ever so sweary! If […]
As you may know, I love Poo Pourri, it is a ‘before you go’ toilet spray that gets rid of the smell of poo… I have written about it before and I am a big fan. To buy your own now, head over and buy the real thing here. This is the bloody wonderful advert […]