Just back from the night market. I get this wonderful coconut shake thing every time I go – and the woman who makes it is great. Her tip for me re motorbike safety? ‘See that street? she says, pointing.  ‘It’s one way, you have to go this way.’ Ok say I, I won’t go the…

Back home after a nerve wracking 45 minute moped ride home in the rain and dark. Fortunately over the last couple of days I have got over my terror every time I rode the moped since the fall. However…I am a little weak at the knees currently… I had a private yoga session organised by…

Says my wonderful new masseuse, Mai, about her mother. I told Mai about my cancer, in part to explain why my left shoulder was so fucked. She told me her mother had had breast cancer. Then tells me,  ‘7 years, then she has gone away.’ Gone where, I ask? ‘She has gone away’, says Mai….

Today. One month ago today…it certainly hasn’t been dull…but I am working on that. Realising that my original 3 month plan may have been optimistic, in terms of only needing that time to get back on my feet. I am only now beginning the whole unwinding process, as in over the last week or so….

As you all know, I do tend to have titles for people in my mind as events are happening, and then also when I write…so hopefully I don’t offend anyone when referring to others by their sexuality. Since you all know me, I am pretty sure you know that discrimination on any basis is not…

Sitting on my bed, looking out at the sea. Incredible. As you may have guessed, my move to the beachfront hut/cottage (basically, one room and a bathroom, fab) happened and I could not be happier. Its been an interesting few days – all of my dressings are off, the burn still looks pretty nasty, but…

The Thai woman who runs this brilliant little vegan cafe also had breast cancer almost the exact same time I did, I found out the other day – as in, I go there most days and chat to her. Her lovely Swedish sailor husband told me, then we were discussing chemo…he said she had it…

I made it!! Decided I will blog about the various adventures here….since it was cancer that led me here 🙂 And, honestly, I want to keep track of what is happening, I am writing for myself and to various people so putting it all on here helps me keep it in one place. So far,…

Since I last posted. That’s what happens when you live life through the looking glass…. Leaving for Thailand on 15th September – booked it when I was still in Kenya. I wondered why I chose that date since I could have chosen any. Realised the other day that it was that date last year I…

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…