Today (4th July) marks 6 years since my diabetes diagnosis and I thought I'd write a post about some of things I've learned along the way. I'm attempting to put a positive spin on my condition with this post, instead …

From Funny Bones and Mog , to Jacqueline Wilson and Harry Potter, to the books I read now, I have loved books for as long as I can remember. Loved is probably an understatement. I love books more than anything else in life and…

2018 has been very crazy and busy. It's been the most successful for my career growth, with lots of wonderful writing opportunities arising. I've accomplished so much and done so many things. It doesn't feel like 20…

It's the first of December!!! My absolute favourite time of year. I was born in December (28th) so I'm 100% a winter baby who loves the cold and most definitely loves Christmas and the build up to it! I love it all - cho…

Regularly I'm asked how I know how many units of insulin to give myself. It's not as simple as just injecting. It requires a bit of mathematics, which is Not Good because I sucked at maths at school. Explaining how I wor…

In this lil series for National Diabetes Awareness Month I'm going to post weekly about an aspect of my condition, this one's about exercise! I love to run and for a regular person without diabetes they have to make …

November is National Diabetes Awareness month and so, I'm planning on writing a few themed posts for it. Raising awareness for my chronic illness (I've finally accepted that's what it is) is something I always want t…

Let's rewind 3 weeks. I woke up one morning and I quite frankly had had enough. I rescheduled my doctors appointment as one had popped up for that afternoon. Then comes a stressful journey to the doctors because it was the f…

I just watched this  video on The Pool (one of my favourite publications) with Bryony Gordon and Alexandra Heminsley discussing exercise and it made me think about my own enjoyment of sport and exercise. They talk about what it …

This post is prematurely written but it's around this time every year for the past 5 that I feel very down. Inconsolably so. This time 5 years ago I was extremely unwell and unaware of an incoming diagnosis of type 1 diabete…

My second year of university is coming to a close. In a weeks time I will have submitted all my assignments and have 4 stress-free months of summer ahead of me. I'm feeling a myriad of emotions. I'm both happy and sad. F…

With the last couple of days of heat in Britain (Lol it lasted 3 days...) I've remembered how much I don't particulary enjoy summer. Yeah it's great fun, the days are longer and I can actually do things instead of fa…

I wrote this article originally for The Olive Fox, but recently to my utter disappointment they have ceased publication. They provided me with an opportunity to publish some of my writing and welcomed me into a wonderful communi…

This blog can be an outlet for me to let out my frustrations and today's post is going to be just that.  Diabetes often feels to me like something that annoys the people around me, inconveniences them. I feel like a burden…

Every day I see a new article about the population's plastic usage and every day it fills me with the same dread and sadness for what we are doing to our planet. We know we're clogging up our magnificent oceans with plas…

Once again I have found studying to be getting in the way of the things I enjoy the most, blogging being one of them. Most of my time lately is devoted to my studies, to reading, researching and writing. Here's a little pos…