Why should parents take out life insurance?  As a parent, you’ll know what it's like to have your hands full. From hectic morning routin...

Happy New Year! I hope your Christmas was a good one and you had a decent break. If you had to work then thank you, I hope you get to have a...

100 months is a milestone no-one wants to reach. 100 months since we lost Elspeth, and it still feels like yesterday and forever, all at onc...

It was World Mental Health Day this week, and I didn't write about it for 2 reasons. Firstly I always worry I'll become a one-trick ...

It's been a heck of a month hasn't it? We thought 2 years of COVID was the wrong sort of adrenaline ride, then add on Brexit, strato...

It feels inappropriate to post about COVID today, although I have drafted a post, so I'll keep that for when the time is right. Instead,...

 8 years ago today, we woke up to find that one of our teenage children hadn't survived the night. In the early hours of the morning she...

So there were no #TBCSmiles in July. My mother had died, and the funeral was on the 19th. I was exhausted and having a desperately needed fe...

It's Summer! Well, it feels like it just now anyway, and the UK is promised a heatwave this weekend, which has given everyone something ...

Hello Spring! We waited a long time for it, but Easter brought with it excellent weather and a chance for everyone to play out. We had a vis...

It's the 15th, and it's the 3rd month, so that must be the date all Caesars hate - the Ides Of March. Crikey the world is a mess rig...

January is usually the hardest month, so let's get straight to it. How is your mental health? It's dark, dismal, Christmas is over a...

"Summer has come and passed The innocent can never last Wake me up when September ends. Like my fathers come to pass Seven years h...

It's Okay To Feel Happy and I Want To Hug Mummy are books which have been written especially to support younger children who have b...

COVID-19 Coronavirus UK Briefing with Boz and World News Update 22nd /23rd March 2021. The UK added 5,379 cases today and now has reported a...

 COVID-19 has filled my life for the past 7 months. I'm not even sure how much time normal people spend thinking about it, what experien...

This Christmas dinner, like the 5 before it, we will have an empty chair at our table. It's a chair that shouldn't be empty. A chair...

Today I got up and had a wash, got dressed and made a brew. I checked my two boys were dressed and were at least thinking about having b...

Gary was left outside our house. At first we thought he was a lost kitten, and we printed off big photos and put up posters looking for his ...

Ironic really that it's during Children's Mental Health Week that I get called into school to discuss one of my children's atten...