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Despite my best efforts at rest, my health continued to deteriorate by the day, and the realisation that I was suffering the worst relapse I have had in three years, hit me very hard. Up until now these bigger relapses have come every two years, always towards the end of January/start of February, resulting in… Read more
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I had a slow start to the new year as I once again struggled to adapt to the return to work. For some reason this tends to be the time of year that I am most likely to suffer a CFS relapse, and so I was trying to be very mindful not to over do… Read more
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I love Christmas but always approach the new year with a certain amount of trepidation. For as long as I can remember I have just felt terribly sad as the old year comes to an end, and having written a diary since the age of seven, the empty pages of a new volume have always… Read more
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In the run up to Christmas, I normally make an effort to visit a different town every weekend, to see their lights and have a browse around the Christmas markets. Unfortunately this year, there were two weekends with severe storms which coincided with the special Christmas events in Tenterden and Rye, where I decided that… Read more
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Over the years I seem to have accumulated more and more ways of counting down the Advent period, and it is now becoming quite an undertaking to keep on top of them all! However, they do bring me a lot of pleasure and I thought that I would share them here. Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas… Read more
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In our house, Stir Up Sunday is a hotly anticipated date in the run up to Christmas – the last Sunday before Advent and the day traditionally reserved for making Christmas puddings. The name comes from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, which includes the line “Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills… Read more
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My daughter and I completed this next part of the coast path on 31st October in gloriously warm sunshine. Although we have walked from Dover to St Margarets and back, and Deal to Kingsdown and back many times before, we have only done the middle section once, and it was the first time that we… Read more
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Autumn is the perfect time for getting out into the woods to admire the fabulous leaf colour, and a highlight this year was a visit to the Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, the inspiration behind Winnie the Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood. We caught the bus from East Grinstead to the village of Hartfield on the… Read more
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I am a bit weird when it comes to my birthday. I hate a fuss being made and I hate people wishing me happy birthday so much that I actively avoid telling anyone when it is, so that with one or two exceptions, only my immediate family know the date, and we mark the occasion… Read more
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I haven’t just done Part 5 of my Kent Coast Walk, hot on the heels of a CFS flare up. We actually completed it on a very hot Sunday at the end of August, but I just haven’t had time to write it up and it is a very belated account. This is a section of… Read more
A Little Kentish Magic 