With parenting comes that funny paradox – life becomes richer, whilst making you an awful lot poorer. Things are put in perspective and priorities change. All of a sudden you start working to live instead of living to work.

Read the unabridged letter, below. Dear Mr Sharpe, I was one of the Service User/ Client of Life Charity. I am writing this letter to show my appreciation and to say a “BIG THANK YOU” to Life Charity organisation for saving my life. I was able to go through sessions of counselling with Joyce. Joyce… Read more »

  If we took the DNA that is in a single cell – including that of the zygote – and laid it end-to-end, it would measure 1 metre. In fact, if we uncoiled all of the DNA within an adult human being, it would reach to the Sun and back … 340 times. Only one… Read more »

“I had an abortion when I was 13. No one asked me what I wanted to do. If they had I would have said I wanted to keep the baby. But as I was very young and confused and my boyfriend was 20, I went ahead and did what my boyfriend’s mother told me to… Read more »

“One of the tenants, Kirstie, was in labour, with me and the girls supporting her as best we could.  She was doing really well.  Then, suddenly, Kirstie began having an overwhelming urge to push; we all went from calmly counting contractions to being on high alert! “I immediately rang the labour ward of the local… Read more »