• My latest column on a carer for someone with ME/CFS for the ME Association’s magazine ME Essential: There’s no such thing as [...]

  The art of always giving it 100%

  May 18, 2012
• (My latest column for the ME Association’s magazine on life as a carer for someone with ME/CFS) Our lives are often governed by routines, [...]

  Getting back in the (old) new routine

  January 23, 2012
• This is my latest column for the ME Association’s magazine ME Essential on life as a carer for someone with ME/CFS: Three little words [...]

  You. Should. Just.

  October 13, 2011
• Like Marty McFly, I’m going back to the future. After two years and eight months of working for a publicly funded organisation that [...]

  New horizons and familiar old ground…or…What I plan to do next

  July 25, 2011

• My latest column for the ME Association’s magazine – ME Essential – has hit the doormats of subscribers: I’ve been [...]

  I’m priceless

  July 1, 2011
• There are times when life as a carer can feel a bit like a seemingly endless journey littered with numerous: “Are we nearly there [...]

  Are we nearly there yet?

  June 28, 2011
• Those who know me well also know I have moments where “clumsy” doesn’t even come close to describing just how ham-fisted I can [...]

  I’ll always drop a few balls along the way

  June 14, 2011
• Is it possible to highlight the true face of caring? I only ask the question as the excellent Carers Week kicks off again today, achieving so [...]

  Facing up to the truth about caring

  June 13, 2011

• Social media is our friend. Thanks largely to Twitter and Facebook, I have been commissioned by the ME Association to write a regular column on [...]

  I’ve become a columnist

  August 5, 2010
• So Carers Week 2010 starts on Monday 14th and its very likely you won’t see any blogs, tweets or Facebook messages from me. It isn’t [...]

  For Carers Week I will be mostly doing…nothing

  June 11, 2010