I was four when Mum clapped her hands together, shouted "Oh good" and hugged the doctor who'd just diagnosed my itching, spotty body with chickenpox. Well, that's not very nice is it? Your mum glad that you're ill. I spent the next couple of weeks convinced that my...

I called Mum earlier to wish her a happy 88th birthday for tomorrow. "I'm NOT going to bingo - I hate it!" she yelled at me. "OK, OK what's the problem with bingo, Mum?" "I HATE bingo and I WON'T go. And I'm NOT fat".   A little bit of mental back-tracking and I...

Mum wrote me poem about a rainbow when I was little.  "Coloured bands of light are bending in the sky, beneath the world's revolving as time and space go by,  Shine my little angel in everything you do.  When I dream ..."  and then the poem stops.  No doubt Mum's mind...

"Come along Simon." This is Leila Mum, she's a girl dog. "Hello Simon. You're lovely aren't you?" Leila, Mum, her name's Leila. Mum and Leila (Simon) are now super buddies. The intuition thing in dogs is astounding isn't it? When I took Leila to meet Mum she...

Leila has arrived and it's like we've had her forever. She's a Pomeranian/Chihuahua mix and we adore her, more than we ever thought we'd love an animal. Mum's doggie dream has finally come true as she has always wanted me to have one for some reason. She wasn't that...