A Bank Holiday Without Alcohol

Despite spending most of last week attempting to persuade myself that I’d given up drinking a week too early and should’ve waited til after the bank holiday weekend instead, I ne...

Life Continues to Fight

One of the downsides of having had breast cancer (and there are a few) is that you are at a higher risk of a recurrence in the five years after treatment. No one is sure why, mostly because ...

Stephen Fry’s Penis

I woke up this morning and for the first time in three weeks it didn’t feel like a drunken Australian had come along in the night, mistaken Bad Tit for a shrimp, and chucked it on the ...

New Battle, New Plan

The thing with being diagnosed with cancer - even if deep down inside  you suspected it since you found that lump - is it’s a shocking game changer. You can’t plan for it. You c...

Round 1 – Life Beats Cancer

Hopefully it’s a knockout. I had my last radiotherapy session yesterday. Nineteen arduous and sometimes very boring daily trips to QA and one very burnt breast and I am done. One of th...