All you need is love....

6 years ago I was living a happy, slightly roguish, single life. It was lots of fun with spur of the moment jaunts abroad and a lifestyle that I am only slightly ashamed to say helped support the economies of several breweries and a few South American countries.

Then I met & fell madly in love with j9 who had two lads in their early teens and my life completely changed. It has been a bloody stressful few years and not how I thought my 40's would be.

But I have had the honour of becoming part of a wonderful family, of knowing a kind of love i didnt think was possible, of seeing the boys turn into such lovely, hard working men, seen j9 get her degree and become a fantastic & unique artist, shared a lot of laughs and, for the first time in my life, really felt like I shared a home rather than a house. Despite all the hard times, and the skint times it really has kicked my cynicism into touch about how important love is and I wouldnt change a thing.*


* Apart from J9 allowing me to get a spider monkey in a jockey outfit and train it to ride the dog.
* and apart from J9 allowing me to worm the boys... nobody who is tapeworm free can surely eat as much as they do.