Last year I became the proud owner of my first Neo-Walk walking stick. Now those of you who are long time readers will know I caused myself an injury over 4 years ago which has left me in chronic pain and with little/no chance of improvement. Repeated tears to my Cruciate ligament and meniscus…

When I was a lot younger I taught myself to cross-stitch.  I was only around 18 years old and it was a spur of the moment thing after walking into a newsagent and seeing a ‘simple cross-stitch’ magazine. I bought the magazine and never looked back. The first project was a little floral ‘picture’…

Regular readers will know I am currently looking after my Mum and two relatives. She was taken ill on the 17th February and spent multiple weeks in hospital before coming home two weeks ago. Unfortunately, over these weeks her health has declined and she needs full time care, which I am giving as best…

Around six weeks ago, my blogger bestie Boo from ‘Does My Blog Make Me Look Fat?’  and I went to Disneyland Paris for a few days. I had already written about our first day; travelling on the Eurostar and an afternoon in the main park, culminating in the amazing firework/laser/drone spectacular at the end…

Last weekend I was due to go to the amazing ‘Festival of Vintage’ held in York. I had been last year and had such an amazing time that I was very excited to go back again this year. Sadly that was not to be. Mum was thankfully released from hospital after 10 weeks and…