Hello everyone!
I havent been around for a while,although I have been visiting the main site(cant do without my daily Brocante fix) Its been a bit of a horrible time for me,I wont bore you with too many details,but I lost my Dear Dad in July,which frankly just knocked me for six,anyone who has lost a parent too will know how awful it is,Hubby lost his job,company car etc. last November and only recently got another job,a very poorly paid job I hasten to add,but better than nothing,I have a day j… Continue

Children of the Dust by Clancy Carlile


My rating: 5 of 5… Continue

I loved Billy so much. I really did, but now I just cannot see how staying is good for any of us though I know it will be a long road before I can leave and take my little precious boy away from this prison.

The salient points are:

he asks repeatedly what I do all day when I get up at 6.30am, look after an increasingly demanding toddler and work for myself in any moment I find. Oh and I cook and clean (not as well as I could do or my mother does but still!). I am about to be in my first book (… Continue

I feel a trifle overwhelmed just now.

The job I worked so hard to build up will go to someone else next Friday. I lose not just the job but all hope of a full-time salary in Scotland, possibly in the UK (it is a very specialised area not widely employed as yet - I sweated blood over 12 years to make this region accept it and utilise it, leading to the creation of a post-grad course in it, which I helped develop and ran for its first two years and now they have advertised the job full-time but w… Continue

I have just spent 45 minutes milking myself like a cow into a bottle to get 100ml of breast milk as young Charlie falls asleep at the breast and is having trouble getting the feed he needs to settle from suckling alone. Last night we did the unthinkable and topped up with formula for the dream feed - and he slept through until 2.30am - which is a first. I was at my wits end and my husband came home at 6pm to find me sitting on the sofa in tears because Chralie had been feeding for 3 hours and no… Continue