And sitting in a cafe, next to this bizarre thing, sobbing: No shortage of surreal in my my life still. Fuck, that was hard. I have no idea when I’ll see them again – they will start in a new school, set up a life all without me.  This is something that will shape them…

Until I have breakfast with the kids and their dad in Heathrow and then say goodbye to them all! After months of preparation with them, from me and Hayley dealing with multiple daily meltdowns in stereo, to family conferences discussing all the changes, to all of us sobbing together, we have got to a place…

How incredibly surreal – half a century!  As I keep saying, growing older is now a very appealing prospect :).  Thank you to so many of you for the birthday wishes, video’s, wonderful comments and all else on FB – amazing.  I am currently on the plane, heading to the beautiful Diani, south coast of…

And now on the plane from Geneva back to London. For 2 hours and then the next plane to Kenya! Yes. London to Geneva on Monday, then Geneva, London, Nairobi today…who said I complicate things…. On the plane with 2 of you – you being my 2 friends who are my family of choice :)….

Currently at the airport with the kids, flight delayed 45 mins…however, we’re all happy! Fuck, what an emotional couple of days! Would be weird if it weren’t I suppose… But, we’ve done it. All my stuff packed up for either storage or sorting out in my friend’s house before I head to Thailand. Kids stuff…

I now have a troll…Mary O’Reilly. I have blocked her nasty and unhelpful comment, and of course will keep doing so. It is a little beyond me as to why someone who doesn’t know me would feel like they have any idea about me or my life. Weird. So I feel a bit more restricted…

You know what – I rock! I quite literally only realised as I was talking to my wonderful acupuncturist earlier, what I am doing. I mean in terms of next steps. I am completely and utterly changing my life, from all that I have known and is familiar over the past 26 years. I’ve left…

Bloody hell, I’m hitting the wall of exhaustion. In fact, I think I may have ploughed through the wall a while ago…. 4 days until we leave. 4 days to panic about the 654 things that leaving one’s home entails…not least leaving with contents going to 3 different places. Hayley will be here, but I…