Certified (adjective): Officially recognised as possessing certain qualifications or meeting certain standards I am beyond thrilled today, to have woken up to a BBC article which indicates that as part of the Women’s Health Strategy, the UK government plan to …
f-RUN-draising!
Fundraising (noun): The seeking of financial support for a charity or cause I’ve written a couple of blogs about running, both here and here. The last one, was about the London Summer run, which James and I completed in September …
Bringing them Home
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust (proverb): From ashes we rise, and to ashes, we will return; life will one day come to an end Someone asked me recently, what we did with the ashes of My Baby and Summer. …
Mumoirs Second Birthday
Portmanteau (noun): A word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others Mum (informal, British, noun): One’s mother Memoir (noun): Historical account or biography written from personal knowledge It’s been two years since launching this website and I’m going …
Monday…. Again
Déjà vu (noun): A feeling of having already experienced the present situation I came on here to write a blog called “Mondays” and it turns out, I’ve already written one here. Oops. I don’t know what it is about Mondays, …
Words of Affirmation
Believe (verb): Accept that something is true, especially without proof I woke up today, with a word in my head: Believe I have a difficult relationship with HOPE, which I’ve blogged about previously. After three pregnancy losses, I just don’t …
Birth Flowers
Unrequited love (phrase): A love that can’t be acted upon or is not openly reciprocated It was our 10 year wedding anniversary last week and James booked us a trip to the Netherlands to cycle the tulip fields, seeing as …
The Awareness of Death
Albert Camus (French philosopher, author, and journalist): He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44 Reading a book about the global solutions to climate change (as you do!) and I stumbled upon a reference to …
The Second Day of Summer
Second (number): Constituting number two in a sequence; coming after the first in time or order It was Summer’s second birthday earlier this month, but it’s taken me a while to sit and blog about it, as we’ve been away …
Past, Present, Future, Always
* This blog is for Charlie, on her 2nd birthday. Gone, but not forgotten * Carry (verb): Support the weight of It’s a new calendar year and a new bruth: I hate not being able to say “she died last …