I find it hard to relax. Always have. My self-care skills are awful. I find it hard to be kind myself. I have been aware of this for years. But I always have a voice saying “You need to do….” Or “What about ….” I have been saying for 2 years “When I finish my…
20 years ago today Damilola Taylor was stabbed to death… and 20 years on our children are still being murdered on our streets
How has it been 20 years since Damilola was killed in a stairwell. 20 years!!!! I remember when it hit the press and people were talking about a 10-year-old child had been stabbed and killed in Peckham and I checked the news about 5 times…. Because 10 years on age!! My sons were younger than…
County lines exploited, excluded from school and murdered – special report
If you do anything today, make sure you take time out to watch what I can only describe as an outstanding report on the murder of Jaden Moodie. The report is overwhelming because you hear from Jaden’s cousin Fidel Ion. Watch special report HERE Jaden’s death, as some people may know, touched me differently. The…
Cunch Line Chronicles… Lets get this taken down now!
One of my young people messaged me and said “Miss….have you seen this” and sent me a link to a game that you can download. Cunch- line Chronicles “This is not your usual casual game! Cunch-line Chronicles is an endless 2d runner game that moves away from the common fantasised, softcore concept and leans more…
Dissertation- completed
I have not blogged for a few weeks. I have not done a much of anything for a few weeks other than write my dissertation. I had to almost exclude any other activities for the past month and push everything I had into writing the dissertation. This alongside a very challenging full-time job and being…
“ I am completely saddened that we are here talking about free school meals as if it is a luxury”.
Have you ever gone hungry? So hungry that it hurts? Have you ever had “sugar sandwiches” because there was nothing else to eat? Had to put Government juice (tap water) on your morning cereal because your parent scant afford milk as a child? Have you ever gone without dinner so your children can eat? Have…
Dear Mr Hancock, you are inadequate.
Dear Mr Hancock The support that children and young people are offered by the NHS around mental health and ASD and ASHD is disgusting. Wait … I don’t think that has come out right, I don’t think that will offend enough people. Let me try again. CAHMS is inadequate NELFT is inadequate Matt Hancock, you…
But I don’t feel like that every day, and for that I am thankful.
The mind can be a dark place, as many know. A place where you can’t hide from your deepest secrets and can’t cover up the truth with flimsy lies. The mind can also be a place of brilliance, where you work through things or discover thoughts that make you happy. Some people’s mental health exists…
Imagine falling in love with someone so deeply and being told that they have cancer. Let alone an 8 year old child..
Stop what ever you are doing right now and read this. “Just 3% of donors on the UK stem cell register are mixed race” – BBC NEWS (2016) Below you are going to read a letter from a friend of mine, Mel. She and her family need YOUR help to save her nieces life. Beautiful…
Am I losing the race of life…..
I often feel as I have achieved very little. I can be feeling fine and then I will have a conversation or see something and its like a black cloud just comes and floats over me , like you see on cartoons when the loan figure is standing and a rain cloud hovers only them…
Out of the Shadows 