A Drake's Progress

Anxiety besets us all, but when you’re the parent of a child with PWS, you get beset by their besetting too. We had a seemingly simpl...

She’s flying in the face of fashion now,   Seems to have a will of her own. I’ve always liked Sir Julian Of Cope’s World Shut Your ...

So it’s just gone midnight on Christmas Eve. Thinking about it, it’s actually Christmas Day. And I’m feeling a touch melancholic. (Whic...

It was just a few steps. My daughter was one of 25 or so pupils who were being honoured at a school presentation evening. She and I...

It’s our 22nd wedding anniversary and we’re ensconsed in Sandy Balls. (It’s the name of a holiday park, all right? Yes, I know it’s wei...

This thing about being a ‘sandwich carer'. It sounds like a euphemism for being fat, you know, along the lines of ‘salad dodger’. W...

I still remember the first time she walked. The first time I held her hand as she tottered along with jelly legs. My daughter’s floppy musc...