November 18, 2009 - Mum In The Madhouse

Parsnip Harvest 3

18 Nov, 2009 in garden / grow your own by Jen Walshaw

I pulled our first parsnip from the garden yesterday to add to our sausage casserole. What a whopper!! It tasted good too, time to pull the rest I think.

Writing Workshop on a Wednesday 8

18 Nov, 2009 in bah to cancer / hospital / mastectomy / Wednesday writing workshop by Jen Walshaw

In an ideal world a hospital for me would focus on healing the mind, in addition to healing the body. It would be a calm and peaceful place catering for all the needs of the people there. Now I have been in and out of hospital enough lately to be able to say that the staff are wonderful and do the very best with the resources available to them, so this is not an NHS bashing post, but a far away dream. On my visit in February this year, I was awarded a single occupancy room and it was fantastic, I had my own bathroom area, which was in a wet more »