On Thursday I drove to visit someone who has just had an operation, is in her 70’s and had planned to chat about work and how she is coping with being housebound, but by the time I’d got there I was a nervous wreck! I don’t know Bradford very well…

Read More The Good Stranger: Help in unexpected places

My daughter will be one in March and I have been reflecting on the birth experience, and how my life has changed since she arrived. Her birth was quite dramatic as she arrived very quickly but it was all natural, and quite a relief after having qu…

Read More Midwife calling….

I knew being a mum was going to be hard, but didn’t realise quite how challenging!

Read More Sometimes it’s hard to be a mum

We’ve had a lovely rest over christmas and new year and I feel like I’ve caught up with my family and got to know my baby daughter again, and it was hard going back to work in the New Year, but I felt much better for the break. Like most working m…

Read More Wise time managers

It feels quite weird at work at the moment as we are being asked to find savings from our budgets that are quite challenging, given that most of the money we manage goes into supporting vulnerable adults and older people. At the same time we are a…

Read More Tis the season

#mce_temp_url# Today at church we were looking at Joseph, I wasn’t really on form, due to a rough night of sick children, and a few too many glasses of rioja. I was distracted by my gorgeous daughter who didn’t want to go to sleep, and was looking…

Read More Joseph the unsung hero

James 3, v 13-17 One of the downsides about being at work full-time and having my husband at home full-time is that I often feel we are doing something wrong, because it’s a different set-up to most other families. I spend alot of time thinking ho…

Read More Sowing seeds of peace

In our house group at the moment we are studying James who refers to the people reading his letters as “Brothers and Sisters”. As we all know families can be challenging and it’s easier to hang out with people you are not related to at times. Some…

Read More Brothers and Sisters