The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that I have a new link on the righthand sidebar (the little girl in the rose). This is a link to the website which is raising funds for a very special and unique little girl. Rose is the only person in the world known to suffer from her
particular genetic abnormality and is also diagnosed with Severe
Learning Difficulties, Developmental Delay & Autism. Rose’s parents are aiming to raise £15,000 in order to send her to a
specialised treatment centre in the USA. Hopefully through her
treatment she will come a little closer to being able to unlock her
voice and speak to her parents for the first time.You can read more about Rose and her family on this site.

Anyway, if you’ve recently won the lottery, aren’t quite sure that you need 5 bentleys and 3 swimming pools and are thinking of doing something more fulfilling and worthwhile with the dosh or even if you just have a pound or two to spare and would like to donate it to a very worthy cause please pop over and visit with Rose and her family. Alternatively you could bid on a very special bunny that I’d like to auction for Rose.

Rose Bunny is available now on my shop and will go to the person who bids the most by 10pm on October 28th.

I visited my Mum on Sunday. She’s adapting well to a very different existence and remains pretty positive considering the situation. She even managed to joke with the surgeon who fitted the halo brace and it’s good to see her fighting and winning against the panic that any of us would feel in the same position. She’s slowly being elevated and tried sitting up yesterday for the first time but fainted fairly quickly – this is something to do with changed blood pressure as she’s being lying flat for nearly a week. She’ll be trying again though and now that she’s been told that she can come home once she’s up and about I know that there will be no stopping her!

On the journey home from my visit I was listening to a new CD Hand Built by Robots by Newton Faulkner and one track had some very apt words to sum up what the last week must have been like for my mum…

"Don’t take my photograph. I don’t want to know how it looks to feel like this. As cars and people pass it feels like standing still but I know, I’m just moving uncomfortably slow…"

Well Mum, the pace is quickening so hold on to your hat!!