As much as I love writing my blog I enjoy reading others too. One such example is Bookworms and Coffee Monsters. It was really lovely then to be approached by the author to be interviewed for the blog.

It's long (I waffled) but she has done a great job. You can read the interview here: http://bookwormsandcoffeemonsters.com/2016/01/20/interview- ( Read more... )

As 2015 ends I reflect on the year that has passed:

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This year, personally, was all about running. My fundraising challenge was to run the equivalent distance of Land’s End to John O’Groats (LEJOG) over the calendar year. This is 603miles. You can read more about the challenge on an earlier blog post and read about the finish (successfully!) ( Read more... )

I've talked about my 2015 fundraising challenge a number of times on this blog over the year. This post marks the final day of the year and with it the completion of my challenge. This won't be my most engaging blog post you'll ever read but that's not what it is trying to be, this is all about giving thanks ( Read more... )

This is a vignette of a blog (which by the way is the word Vine is a derivative of - as in the very short online video clip, a fact I learned this week ( Read more... )

(Or, alternatively, my counsellor is going to have a field day with me later ( Read more... )

This is not the blog I had intended to write this week (the other one will come soon) but it felt timely to do so. There are many things I know to be true about myself and one is that I always need a goal. So when I had a week off work recently and no plans (purely to use up my leave) I knew that I had to set a goal. In fact I set three. Two I ( Read more... )

Saturday was more than a little surreal. Twelve years after I graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a degree in Criminology, I was back in gowns and back on the stage. But this time it was for a very different reason ( Read more... )

My fundraising challenge this year (1 January - 31 December 2015) is to run the equivalent distance of Lands End to John O'Groats. This is 603miles. I am thrilled that with 35days to go I have hit my target. That doesn't mean I wouldn't love your donation if you've been planning to give but haven't got around to it yet :o) You can do so at www. ( Read more... )

My family home is being sold.  Suddenly my one bedroom flat is full of boxes as the thirty plus years worth of memory boxes, previously stored unassumingly in the loft of my family home, are once again my responsibility.

I haven’t even looked in most of these boxes since I filled each one and now I am going through them, awash with the emotion ( Read more... )

This year, as you may have read, my fundraising challenge this year is to run the equivalent distance of Land's End to John O'Groats as the crow flies - 603miles in the 365 days of 2015. I've had some ups and downs, a couple of months when I was too poorly to run and some weeks where I have clocked significant mileage ( Read more... )