Jade has recently started attending our surgery. She is a 54-year-old woman who moved to the area to be closer to her first grandchild. I document her medical history. She has high blood pressure, high cholesterol, a four-year history of...
There’s something deeply comforting about meatballs. Whether it’s the act of making them (digging your hands deep into the mixture, feeling the ingredients between your fingers) or eating them (the flavours bursting across your palate as...
As evening arrives, so too does that low rumble of dread. You distract yourself with chores, pushing past thoughts of bedtime. Dinner and TV hold it off well enough, but once in bed, panic surges. Checking work emails and texts is a flimsy...
“YOU CANNOT SPEND YOUR LIFE AUDITIONING FOR OTHER PEOPLE’S APPROVAL. AT SOME STAGE YOU THINK, ‘ACTUALLY, THIS IS WHO I AM’.” Certainty and Dame Helen Mirren go hand in hand. She is renowned, after all, as a person, an actress, of assured...
