Nominations and Awards

Dear Bug… I Am One of The People’s Book Prize Finalists

News alert! Yes, you are reading it right! I am so pleased to announce that A Girl Behind Dark Glasses is one of the finalist for The People’s Book Prize 2019!! It was incredible seeing how much everyone on social media really got behind the book and kept voting. Your support means everything. I wrote […]

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Dear Bug… A Royal Occasion

It’s not often that you get an invitation to the Queen’s Garden Party… So I was pretty shocked to get the letter through the post! I was invited for my charity work and raising awareness for severe M.E. It came in the thickest card I have ever seen and was really quite special. I thought

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Unrest Premiere and Parliamentary Screening…

Back in 2012, after seeing The World of One Room on YouTube and Facebook, Jen Brea approached me to see if I’d like to feature in a film documentary, (at the time called Canary in a Coal mine) about M.E. I agreed and what a journey it has been! It was renamed Unrest to give

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I’ve Been Nominated….

OMG I’ve been nominated for a Pride In Medway Award by my local pharmacist Vanessa. Sadly they are trying to cut funding to Pharmacies across the UK. They are vital to people like me. My pharmacist makes sure I have all my medication delivered to my door as I’m too unwell to pick them up, she puts all

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Bringing back the sparkle

A Rochester woman with severe M.E. has brought hope, support and comfort to over 500 young people. Jessica Taylor, who is chronically ill with severe M.E., set up Share a Star in October 2010 to bring the sparkle back into the lives of severely unwell children and teenagers. Since starting the charity, Jessica has helped

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