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August 7, 2025

Every Brilliant Thing

Hello. It’s been a while. I collect things to tell you in my head but there has been so much going on in my heart and so little time to really process the past six months. Learning you have stage 4 cancer, well any cancer, hits you like a truck at full speed and since…

July 28, 2025

I Don’t Want to Talk About It

I’ve been playing with book ideas and beginning to write. One a Creative Cancer Companion and the other a series of essays called Seven Songs for Survivors based around songs by powerful woman. I think these may be compatible in the same book but as an ex TV tart I know this is really just…

July 17, 2025

My Achey Breaky Heart

Just as you think it’s safe to go back in the water….I came into A&E today with a chest infection and I’m kept in for a suspected heart attack! Rubbish. I’m fine. On these drugs I am supposed to report anything more than a minor sore throat. Paris and a few social occasions proved a…

July 16, 2025

Paris/Change

These days have a unique quality to them. In a similar way to the days following diagnosis, but without the crushing sadness, everything glitters. This time round with the possibility of reprieve rather than the urgency of an imminent ending. The lenses of shifting circumstance through which we view the world change our reality. And…

July 6, 2025

Joy/Pain

Hello. It’s been a while. I’d say sorry but I’ve been busy living. So ‘sorry not sorry’ as the kids say. These past 12 days, since my news that the cancer has gone into remission, have been an extraordinary heady mix of joy and pain. This is life in technicolour, the full spectrum. Trauma and…