• Pride In My Daughter E What Wonderful Text I Received

    October 30, 2018

    My 21 year old daughter is now carving out her life in another city to where I live, it’s not quite what I thought would happen when I remember her being a little girl and starting school, but you at some point start living your own life and making your own decisions about exactly how…

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  • A Final Post About My Daughter E And University: She Is A Qualified Nurse

    September 17, 2018

    It’s been nearly three years since I took my daughter, E, to Southampton to start her university course to study nursing. It actually only seems like yesterday, and I clearly remember how emotional I was at leaving E at her university halls, and the drive back home was lonely. It gave me plenty of time…

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  • University: My 20 Year Old Daughter

    March 9, 2018

    Regular readers of my blog will know I have written on a number of occasions about my 20 year old daughter, E, and her adventure through university and studying for her degree in nursing. Well my daughter is now well and truly in her third and final year of university, the home run you might…

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  • My Daughter’s Trip To Uganda Is Not Going To Plan

    August 11, 2017

    Last Sunday I set off to Heathrow at 8.30am so my 20 year old daughter could catch her plane to Uganda for her placement in relation to her university course that she is currently in her second year studying child nursing. Our journey to Heathrow was trouble free and her friend who she was going…

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  • My Daughter E Is Going To Uganda As Part Of Her University Course 

    July 14, 2017

    My nearly 20 year old daughter is coming to the end of her second year in university of a three year course in child nursing, and she is doing incredibly well even if I say so myself. Her grades have gone up significantly since the end of her first year which makes me very proud…

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  • My Daughters and neo-natal 

    October 25, 2016

    If you are a regular reader of my blog you might have read that that my 19 year old daughter is currently in her second year of university studying child nursing. Part of the course involves going out on placement to different hospitals and gaining experience in all the facets of child nursing. The placement…

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  • What my daughters sickness has taught me

    May 3, 2016

    It’s the early hours of the morning, whilst the world and everybody around me sleeps. I lay on a hospital bed awake next to one of my four year old twin girls, M. It has made me reflect on the experiences of the last few days. What these days have taught me is that no matter…

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