Now, some of you who know me well, know i'm pretty down to earth And if I say or write a thing, it surely has some worth Well last night, I ate no cheese and hardly had a drink But the craziest dream I ever had, has made me stop and think Could my beloved footy team really [...]
In May 1973 when Sunderland beat the then mighty Leeds United and won the prestigious FA Cup, I was a skinny 8 year old, living in Frank Street, Durham, nestled between Sherburn Road and Sunderland Road. I had no confidence and felt fairly insignificant, I didn't really feel part of anything, but on the day I want to [...]
Drug Problems My son is now 33 years old and has been injecting ‘Mcat’ (methadrone) no to be confused with methadone for about a year and a half now. He has always experimented with drugs and alcohol but this latest adventure was going to kill him if I didn’t intervene. I live in France and decided that I should ask [...]
There is something about writing, whether it be using a pen and paper . as it has been done for thousands of years, or one of the widely available array of technical tools so easily found today. The fact is that writing something is more permanent, the words cannot be lost so easily as the spoken word. We can read [...]
Married at 17, would I listen, do any of us at that age? Well here I was a single mum with two beautiful girls. At aged 24 and after a terrible divorce, an illness which nearly claimed my life and not knowing where my life was going, they say time is a great healer, I think time just eases the [...]
My survival journey started the day that 'choice' was taken from me. At the age of Fourteen I was sexually assaulted by 2 people that I thought of as “friends” from that day I have struggled to trust people. At 14 we all think we are street wise and that we can take care of ourselves. We all make poor choices, we [...]
