Our new routine began last week - when the kids leave to go to their mums, it's very tough. They've just left mine for the 2nd time. Horrible seeing them upset - and although I'm currently feeling absolutely fine after a very difficult first 'handover' last Sunday (when I wasn't), it'll take them some getting used to.
I know they'll be fine once they're there and everything and I take comfort from that - but it's impossible not to feel awful for the poor little things who are totally blameless in what's happened.
Dunno what the little sod will miss more - me or the Xbox One!
Today a dear friend starts chemotherapy for her cancer. She is only just turned 30, it is so cruel how this evil illness strikes.
My thoughts today are with Amy.
Today, immense love is invested in rhinos, yet they are being slaughtered in ever greater numbers. The northern white rhino is the rarest species of African rhino. There are far greater numbers of southern white rhinos and black rhinos. But the demand in Asian countries such as Vietnam for rhino horn as a traditional medicine believed to cure everything from flu to cancer is fuelling a boom in poaching. From 2007, when just 13 rhinos were killed by poachers in South Africa, the killings have grown horrifically. Last year 1,215 rhinos were slaughtered for their horns in South Africa.
Our new routine began last week - when the kids leave to go to their mums, it's very tough. They've just left mine for the 2nd time. Horrible seeing them upset - and although I'm currently feeling absolutely fine after a very difficult first 'handover' last Sunday (when I wasn't), it'll take them some getting used to.
I know they'll be fine once they're there and everything and I take comfort from that - but it's impossible not to feel awful for the poor little things who are totally blameless in what's happened.
Dunno what the little sod will miss more - me or the Xbox One!
Hearing today that a work colleague (aged 51) has been diagnosed with lung cancer
Nobody wants anything starting with the 'c' word, but that's really not the one to get