Eleven years ago today my life changed forever. I became a mum. I actually always had that mothering nature, I was a surrogate mother to over 300 students in my job at the University and my friends thought of me as their mum away from home as I would feed and look after them all.
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We muddle through our early years of life with our parents declaring any sing of affection towards the opposite sex a sign that you will be married to that person some day. Then we go through the years of the opposite sex being gross and disgusting, followed by a complete infatuation with finding someone to
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Dear Future Husband, whoever you may be, You know that part in the vows, in sickness and in health, well, I need to talk to you about that bit. I have what is called an invisible illness. On the outside I look fine. I go about my daily activities like most people do, only over
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To say that you have not ever thought of the “if I won the lottery…” would be a lie. We have all had those fleating thoughts and daydreams as to what we would do, what lavish life we would lead and how we would spend our winnings. I would like you to do an exercise
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Apparently, we all have at least seven other doppelgangers, wandering around, living their own lives and oblivious to the other ‘gangers existence in another life. I have been mistaken for two of my doppelgangers in recent years. One is called Gill, that is all I know of her, being chased down the street by a
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Not to be put off by random messages on dating sites, or by my first date disasters, I pushed on in life not wanting to stay single. There must be someone out there who I click with and is “normal”. And yes! Yes, there is. But after being single for so long, living on my
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Here we go, interesting things about, ME! 1. My full name is Victoria Elizabeth Winstanley 2. My Mum does not know why she named me this, this was not the name that she had chosen for me 3. The names my Mum had picked out were Christopher for a boy and Penny for a girl 4.
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I sit and I listen To the buzz’s and beeps The sound of the ward While my mum lies asleep She is comfortable they say But how do they know? She cannot talk like this We just have to wait for her to go I sit and I wait I watch as she breathes With
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As a teenager growing up, what did you think your first time was going to be like? Yes folks, I am talking about “The Sex”. Did you imagine roses, a huge comfortable bed, romance like in the movies. You and your then boyfriend in a mad passionate embrace that felt like it would never end?
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I am looking up at the stars, my Dad pointing out groups of stars like The Plough and Orion. I sit wondering what they are. My Dad tells me they are not planets, just balls of gas. I am thinking that it must be a large gas bill to power all those lights. But what
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