The Reading Residence

18/05/2026

Three years on....

Three years ago this week I received my breast cancer diagnosis. Three years ago, sitting on pink chairs, waiting to hear the results of the biopsy taken five weeks previously.  Three years ago when everything

18/05/2026

Sending best wishes out there to other parents with kids taking their GCSEs and A Levels at the moment. Hope it's relatively smooth sailing for you!

16/03/2026

This is survivorship...

It's been a difficult start to 2026. Since the beginning of the year, I've been caught up in phone calls, tests, and appointments. This is no clickbait piece, I'll tell you now upfront that I

23/02/2026

Today over on the blog, I'm asking whether we can normalise not taking HRT?

I think it's great that menopause and perimenopause is now a conversation. A regular, high profile conversation. It seemed to be an unspoken thing that fifty per cent of us deal with, and now it's

24/11/2025

There's a lot happening Behind the Scenes at the moment...

Today I thought it'd be good to share a Behind The Scenes with you.  It's been a while since I shared what's happening here. Those things that are going well, not so well, and what

17/11/2025

Looking into those next steps...

I shared last month about school getting more serious now, with my daughter in Year 11. Since then, we've been to a couple of Sixth Form open evenings, one at my son's school and one