Blue Monday
If your Monday is a blue one, please don't blame the date...
Blue Monday
Monday 18th January 2016 was officially Blue Monday. Dee’s advice from 2014 holds true. According to a number of newspapers and advertising campaigns, Monday 20th January is the most depressing day of 2014. According to some other newspapers and advertising campaigns, ‘Blue Monday’ has already happened. According to many of my friends, Blue Monday happens […]
Final goodbyes in the chapel of rest
Dee Montague offers a moving insight into her visit to see her brother in the Chapel of Rest. I’ve been thinking long and hard about whether it’s wise to document this. Whether I actually click the ‘publish’ link after writing it, I haven’t yet decided. I’m not sure if it will be helpful to anyone, or […]
Domestic abuse: it was all my fault
Dee shares her experiences of teenage domestic abuse. I met him on my first day of college when I was 16. We got on very well and became good friends. He asked me out a couple of months later and we became inseparable. We always had a couple of hours to wait for our buses […]
Dumped on Valentine’s Day
The most romantic day of the year - pfft - not if you've been dumped as often as Dee has on the Valentine's Day...