Something happened in my life

Grief – the goldfish, sequins and colander theory

November 1, 2009 By Ellen

Did I mention that my brother died in the middle of the summer?Horrible, shocking and tragic. I have a lovely supportive family and enough true friends, but there comes a point where you just know you can’t keep telling them the same thing. Life, like they say, goes on. That’s partly what blogging’s about – […]

Anyone remember what we did before the web?

July 2, 2008 By Ellen

I seem to have joined a club – the kind of club that you don’t want to be member of whether they’ll have you or not. (Apologies to Groucho Marx)It’s the club for people who’ve had late miscarriages and haven’t got over it yet. The reason I know about it is because I’ve turned once […]

Reasons to be cheerful (part 3)

June 23, 2008 By Ellen

Showing my age with a dollop of Ian Dury here, I just wanted to say that while the previous entry is necessarily bleak I am not wading through the Slough of Despond.I have many, many causes to be thankful from the Boys and the Panther through my fabulous friends and family to health and wealth […]

A dark week

June 20, 2008 By Ellen

There weren’t really any clues. Nothing hinting at the heartache to come. On Sunday morning I woke to find a couple of splats of dark blood. My learned friends on the internet and the midwives at the RAH didn’t seem to think that at 18 weeks there was anything to worry about, so I didn’t. […]

It’s a breeze

January 20, 2008 By Ellen

We had an adrenaline-charged experience at X-scape (huge wedge-shaped building full of fun-packed wallet-emptying stuff near Braehead) this weekend. The Panther is celebrating another birthday – counting back to see if he can make it back to 0 – and as part of the jollies we thought it a good idea to take the Boys […]

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