I knew I’d have my cover blown eventually. It’s just… that I was so sure I’d be the drunken architect of my own undoing. I could picture the scene quite vividly: me, pub, injudicious quantities of wine, blurtyblurtystumbleblurty. Consequently, I’d imagined it would be my internet-savvy friends that found me, and I was … reasonably ok about that. Braced [...]
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It’s 3am and I have been driven from my bed by my usual demons: a tormenting mixture of insomnia and recurrent waking nightmare-type things, in which I invariably end up cradling my dead son. It appears that my years of infertility, miscarriages, eventual knife-edge pregnancy, NICU and possession of an over-developed imagination have left me a tad prone to [...]
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*taps microphone uncertainly* Is this thing on? *shades eyes and peers out into the dark* Umm… Hi. This… blogging thing. It goes like – how? I left you with rather odd anatomical news (from me! What a … a non surprise!) a fortnight ago and promptly vanished. Well, I can tell you where I disappeared to, at least. [...]
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