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Nora’s Gnashers, Oscar’s Howls & The Great Birthday Feast Fiasco”

Ey up, dear readers! Your favourite Yorkshire lass is back with another thrilling instalment of our lives that we couldn’t make up if we tried and questionable culinary choices. Welcome to the continuing saga of ‘Kate’s Life: Not Quite Downton Abbey’, more like ‘Downton Chippy’ if we’re honest. So, picture this: yesterday we finally rolled […]

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Fish Cottage, Twice-Cooked Chips & A Dickhead Called Cedric

Well, what can I say? The weather this morning is an absolute shambles. D.I.S-MALLLLLLL. Honestly, what the is going on? Yesterday, it was so hot I wore shorts and a vest, looking like a questionable extra from Love Island, and today? Today, it’s foggier than my memory after bottomless brunch. I can’t even see across […]

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Living the Dream (and Driving the Nurses Mad)

It’s the fourth day out here in the middle of nowhere, and it is fucking lovely! Matthew is healing nicely, getting plenty of rest, and miracle of miracles, actually letting himself recover. Meanwhile, I’m not just writing this blog; I’m officially starting to transfer it into a publishing file. That’s right, Screw Cancer: Rodger the […]

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Title: You Keep Me Going (Even When I’m Running on Tea and Sheer Willpower)

Let me start with a confession: Sometimes, I feel like I’m juggling flaming torches while riding a unicycle…and the unicycle’s got a dodgy wheel. Between worrying about my husband’s health, trying to keep the community centre from falling apart (or at least from running out of biscuits), being a mum, Nana, housewife, and whatever else […]

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Grief is a universal language that we all speak.

Grief is an emotion and sad feeling that the whole of humanity can connect with. We can all agree that at some stage in our lives we have lost somebody we loved, or somebody close to us. We can all understand that deep sadness that grief leaves behind and agree that we feel shock, disbelief and sadness.

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