Pregnancy update Tomorrow I will be ten weeks. I had a scan today and we have a heartbeat and a little dancing embryo. Cue a huge sigh of relief. I don’t think I’ll feel confident about this pregnancy until this little Pickle is actually born. Pipkin was also fine and dancing at ten weeks, but […]
The first time I heard about meditation I was ten years old. My Mother had just given me a book for my birthday called ‘Meditation for Children’. Although an avid reader, I was unimpressed and uninterested in this particular book. I didn’t like my Mother telling me what to do, especially if it was in
Moving notice Mr Duncan gave notice to our landlord at the end of last week. It was not as soon as I would have liked. I’d have done it the day he got the visa. But when you delegate the job of Landlord Relations to someone else you live with, you have to let them
Although I started working on eating the freezer and our cupboards bare some months ago, we still seem to have lots of random store-cupboard and spice items to use up before we move, so I need to get better at incorporating these into my meals. It seems the weather in London outdid itself in sun
Jersey Our trip to Jersey was great. On one hand I felt very connected. Maybe it was because Jersey reminded me of New Zealand – at least in its leafy greenness and closeness to the sea. On the other hand I felt a bit despondent. Does this family line end with me? Obviously their
In a couple of days we’re going to the island of Jersey, in the English Channel for a bit of a holiday. Ever since we started working on having a family, I’ve also been working on my family tree. I think the connection is fairly obvious. My Grandmother’s grandmother emigrated to New Zealand from
My scan after I lost Pipkin showed that there was retained tissue. The doctor advised I give it a few days to see if it would pass by itself and scheduled a scan for the following week. She said if there was still tissue then I’d need to have surgery to remove it. I’ve
A long, long time ago, Mr Duncan and I agreed we would move to Australia. We just needed to wait until his start-up company started doing well (we thought three years was reasonable), and he felt that it could continue to prosper without his daily supervision. Three years later I was climbing the walls in
One of the few friends I can (and do) speak quite openly to about
While its been relatively easy (and sort of fun) to photograph and document the meals I make to keep myself and Mr Duncan in optimum health in the hope of conceiving again in the future… I have more than a dozen unpublished posts in which I have written about my pregnancies/loss/reactions to the world at