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People say I became a mum this week. When I gave birth to my precious baby. When I held her in my arms. When I fed her, clothed her, changed her. When I put her down to sleep then kept an eye to make sure she was okay. People say that made me a mum.…

Just a short post for today as there are other things – more specifically one thing – occupying our time. Baby Charlotte Rebecca made her arrival into the world on Wednesday, our beautiful, bouncing 6lb 11oz bundle of answered prayer. We still can’t quite believe she’s ours and there’s nothing like just watching her. Even…

In the last few days I’ve seen and heard various discussions through which I’ve been prompted to explore a topic that it can be tempting to avoid talking about – suicide. It’s a topic people are often reticent to discuss. It’s something that we don’t fully understand. Sometimes people fear that talking about suicide might…

Waiting. Some say it’s the worst part, although that probably depends what you’re waiting for. We probably spend more time than we care to think about waiting. Waiting for the end of the working day. Waiting for the weekend. Counting down to holidays, to Christmas (oops, did I just use that word in September?), to…

Hello dear readers, and apologies for the radio silence. We’ve been having some technical issues over here (don’t ask me what; I leave the complicated techie things to people who know more about them than me). There’s good news and bad news. The first is, you had a bit of an enforced break from my…

In the last week there has been much discussion and debate about efforts to rebuild the fire-ravaged Notre Dame cathedral in Paris and, perhaps more notably, the fundraising efforts to support it. With more than £500 million raised inside 24 hours to help rebuild the gutted building as people across the world suffer illness, disease,…

This week we’ve been celebrating our wedding anniversary and it got me thinking afresh about the unique, crazy yet wonderful institution that is marriage. We’ve all heard the old joke that marriage is like an institution – borstal. But, while we can joke, there’s no doubting that marriage is an important subject to consider. From…

This Mother’s Day has been a time for reflecting and thinking about my two darling children – Rainbow, who I carry in my womb, and his or her older brother Lentil, who is held in the arms of God. It’s given me the opportunity to consider afresh the gift of each of our beautiful babies…

So today is Mother’s Day, a day when thousands of small children will excitedly hand over slightly-over-glued homemade cards along with breakfast in bed while grown men desperately scour supermarkets trying to remember what the flowers are called that their matriarchs like and what on earth the things even look like. It can also be…

Sometimes songs come onto the radio with lyrics that make me cringe about the message they’re giving to those who hear them. For example, if I hear Big Girls Don’t Cry I have to switch stations for fear that might just get too angry about the potentially-damaging wrong impression it could be giving impressionable members…