Thursday 31 December 2020: So, here it is, the final day of 2020. The turkey leftovers are long gone and the coconut chocolates remain in the Quality Street tin. The pine needles of the Christmas tree cling onto the branches for dear life, but I’m not ready to take down the tree yet as that…
Saturday 18 July 2020. Day 533: On 26 February 2020, I received a text message from the NHS. It read that ‘there have been a number of confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID19) in the UK. If you have been abroad in the past few weeks and have concerns, please do not attend the surgery or…
Monday 24 February 2020. Day 408: Just over a year ago, I decided to stop whinging and start putting my moans and grips onto virtual paper so that my loved ones didn’t have to listen to my constant verbal diarrhoea. Did it work? Possibly not, due to the fact that I am and always will…
Friday 1 November 2019. Day 293: At the end of a week where I’ve worked (the salaried kind), supported my mum through a major operation, managed a family member’s mental health crisis, spent time with my children and grandchildren, cleaned the bathroom and had the offer of sex from two separate men, I’m left wondering,…
Friday 13 September 2019. Day 244: So it’s Friday again and I will mostly be spending yet another weekend pretty much on my own. I am beginning to quietly dread these two days, having no fixed routine like I do when I’m working Monday to Friday. A call to my lovely mum where I share…
Sunday 21 July 2019. Day 190: ‘I currently want to stab my husband in the head!’. Just one of the recent comments I’ve seen on a social media menopause forum. The menopause impostor makes the sweetest of us turn into creatures we don’t recognise and the slightest wrong action or clumsy comment from our nearest…
Wednesday 8 May 2019. Day 117: So I seem to be a part of the modern social media phenomenon and I got dumped by Instagram. Not the actual social media site, but by my partner of 7 years. Call me old fashioned, but an actual conversation would have been the decent move. So who do…
Tuesday 16 April 2019. Day 95: As my 50th birthday is only weeks away, I cannot avoid looking back at my life so far. Family and friends know that I have spoken and written a lot about my life as a young single mum. Experiencing motherhood for the first time, aged 19, having been abandoned…
Wednesday 20 March 2019. Day 68: When I was young (to my mum, I still am) being 50 was one step away from the retirement home. In 50 days time, I will be 50 years old. As this new decade approaches, I can’t help looking back at previous significant birthdays and remembering where I was…
Monday 3 March 2019. Day 51: Since becoming aware three months ago that I am in the perimenopause stage of my life, I decided to start writing this journal in the hope that writing my thoughts and feelings would help me cope with this mid-life transition and to hopefully connect with other meno women. What…
