Sometimes, life doesn't just give you lemons. Sometimes it grows a great big lemon tree, mashes them up into a 15-litre jug of bitter lemonade and pours it right over your head. Such is what happened to me last summer when I found out my cancer had returned. Cue operat...

I cannot believe how fast Christmas is approaching (I say that every year!) and it's so hard to know what to buy for people (I say that every year too!). But I decided a while back to do myself a favour. I chose to eschew the big name stores in favour of small local bu...