Hip replacement at 40.

As I write this, I'm day 8 post-op of having a total hip replacement of my left hip. The 'before' xray above shows the damage that happened to my left hip when I got JIA at age 10. I somehow managed the next 30 years with that hip despite the doctors describing it as 'very severe...

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#LetThereBeLight with Urban Cottage Industries

Anyone who has been following me on social media over the past week will know that I've been struggling to get to the computer following my hip replacement operation last Tuesday. But I'm also stubborn enough to know that if there is something I really want to do then even having...

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Our FUN MONSTER BURGERS #RustlersHack

As a general rule, I prefer to cook meals from scratch, but there are certain days when that just isn't possible. Fridays for example. For most people, Friday night is a case of 'the weekend starts here' but for us it's a crazy-busy day. After school, D has his guitar lesson,...

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Do herbal remedies really work?

Aarrrgh! I found myself yelling in the night as I awoke again with crippling pain in my left hip. It was frozen with pain and stiffness and I was unable to move it. The weight of the quilt on it was making the pain worse. I woke Richard and asked him to lift the quilt gently. Arrrghhh! I yell again 'don't wobble the bed!'. Any movement caused more excruciating pain. I'd...

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Mauritius Memories - Round up post

We spend a wonderful couple of weeks in Mauritius last summer and it seemed to take me forever to get the diary blogposts up afterwards. One final thing I like to do is have a summary blogpost which has links to all the others in one place so that I can find it all easily again! Mauritius...

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Miss T at the ArcelorMittal Orbit

I've missed this blog. Any blogger knows that keeping a blog going takes time and commitment and as easy as it may look, by the time the words are written and photos uploaded - it always ends up taking me longer than I thought to write a blogpost. But so many of our memories are...

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