Dull aches, hot baths and taxi’s Glorious Bank Holiday Monday where I sat Lizard like in the garden soaking up the rays and dreaming I was in some faraway exotic location instead of my garden in Wakefield. Spent the entire day outside writing and managed to draft 2 short story outlines, a couple of potential
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The last time I slept under canvas it was with the promise that the following morning I would see Mr Button & Mr Hamilton. On Friday night however it was Mr Frost. Yes, Princess Catherine had been talked into sleeping under canvas in order to keep up with the training programme for Mr S’s forthcoming
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May is National ME awareness month and on the 12th it’s Fibromyalgia Awareness Day so I thought I’d share my story with you. Back in 2001 I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and ME. Over the years both conditions have been my constant companions to varying degree’s. Neither condition is life threatening but they are debilitating
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Are you like our family and religiously watch every BBC1 nature show that graces our screen? Since Daniel was old enough to talk we’ve had David Attenborough as a semi permanent fixture in our TV calendar – So much so that whenever the boy heard David’s voice he looked round and shouted “Dad?” We recently
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A lot by all accounts! For years I’ve been plagued with; “Ooo, Yaffe, that’s an unusual surname, where’s it from?” I hated my unusual surname throughout school, teachers frequently getting it wrong – it’s pronounced YAFF – silent ‘e’. Not Jaff, Jaffa, Yaff-ay, just good old straight forward YAFFE (silent e). Years of being shouted
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