Tweet Little M: Mummy, do ‘ummies make you feel better? I got lots.

Tweet Remember how me and Siri don’t get on? Well the other day, while I could still drive, I needed to ask Mr TOPP to pick me up a bottle of water from the shop (that I knew he was going to anyway, I’m not that lazy). I tried phoning, but he didn’t answer, so [...]

Tweet Monday was always going to be a tricky day. It was exactly a month since my mum died. But is was also Little M’s birthday. There was no way I could not think of mum, but I knew she would be telling me to make sure Little M had a great day. So that [...]

Tweet Today my baby has declared herself a “Big Girl” and is a whopping three years old. How did that happen? I’m pretty certain we’ve only just brought her home from hospital. Last night we had a chat about birthdays and stuff. Me: So, Little M, how old are you today? Little M: TWO! Me: [...]

Tweet Little M: tucking into her second bowl of Cheerios When I finished deeze please I have some weetabix? ******** Big M: *BURP* Me: That was revolting. What do you say? Big M: It was Little M.

Tweet Today I went back to work. Last week I had had some space to think, to cry, to try and get my head around what has happened. I thought I was ready. I am ready. Except Driving to school this morning I got a bit emotional. It all felt so normal. But life isn’t normal [...]

Tweet Big M: I wish I could be quiet like Little M. ******* Cousin E: Look, there’s a picture of our Granny. Big M: I know. I wish she was still real.

Tweet Ordinarily, when stuff happens, this is where I come. Writing helps me work out how the world works and how I feel about it all. When mum was first ill, she asked me not to put anything out in the public domain. She had (has) a huge number of followers on twitter and I [...]

Tweet I love twitter. I always have. I admit it took me a while to warm up to it, but once I’d worked out what was going on there was no stopping me. Mum got twitter too. Over dinners some of our family would question our love of the 140 characters, wondering how on earth [...]

Tweet My mum died on Saturday 13th April. She was a wife, mum, daughter, sister, granny, aunt, friend. I haven’t yet got the words to write about her, her life and her death. That will come when I have time to catch my breath. My mum joined twitter back in 2009 and I remember doing [...]