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Would You Be-Leaf It?

At first, I planned to include this week’s blog in the comic, but I changed my mind. To really share how I felt on Wednesday afternoon, I needed to write honestly and openly, just as it was. As you know, Matthew’s journey through his cancer diagnosis, tumour removal, and chemo over the past four months […]

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Introducing Mr I.T. Geek and Mary Migraines Chin Hairs.

Let me just set the scene: it’s a Wednesday morning, I’m on my first bucket of tea (yes, a bucket), Mary Migraine is lurking somewhere in the shadows like a nosy neighbour, and grandchild number four has kindly shared their latest superbug with me. I have a cough and a sore throat. “Have grandkids,” they […]

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Title: Dazzling Dutchess Debbie and the Monday Night Pube Party

If you thought your Mondays were wild, wait ‘til you hear what goes on in the men’s toilets when the lights go out and the doors swing shut. That’s right, folks: it’s time for another episode from everyone’s favorite cleaning crusader—Dazzling Dutchess Debbie! Picture this: it’s a Monday night, and the men’s urinal is positively […]

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Title: Results Day: Bladdergate & The NHS Circus (Yesterday’s Letter Re-Written)

Dearest readers, accidental clickers, and people who just like a bit of British medical mayhem, brace yourselves. It’s Results Day, aka “The Grand Reveal”, aka “Will I Cry in the Hospital Car Park Again It’s been six weeks of living in a soap opera written by someone on too much NHS prescription cough syrup. The […]

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Monday Mayhem: Frying Pans, Sausages & Sanitary Towels On My Forehead

Chef Amy has officially reached weaponised kitchen goddess status with her brand new frying pan, and a warning label: scratch it, and she’s legally allowed to clobber you. I’ve seen her wield it. I’m not taking any chances. Even the metal utensils are scared. Meanwhile, Matthew had to pee in two tubes after Cancer Support […]

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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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3d book display image of The Missing Piece in Coping with Grief

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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