Living life paralysed from the neck down, out loud. To be in a motionless state, trapped inside a paralysed body with nothing to do is hell on earth. No radio, television, books, telephone or computer. Nothing, just you, staring into space. Some very special Earth Angels answered my call.

Talking IBD, Colitis, Crohns, Ostomies, Jpouches and awesomeness. So Bad Ass came into being as a website and blog about Inflammatory Bowel Disease and specifically my journey with Ulcerative Colitis and living with a stoma. Over the past year it has become so much more than that, my journey has taken a different path and I have been inspired to talk more about self esteem, body image and loving yourself. Take a look at my blog.

The past week has been such an emotional week for my family. My beloved and only grandmother has been in hospital. It has been a crazy week of hospital visits to ICU and sleepless nights. But my gran is a fighter. All we can do is pray for a recovery and no suffering. 2015 has been a year filled with so much of everything. From good to not too good to amazing its all been there. We now head into the 8.

Are we obsessed with Christmas? So today makes it 38 days until Christmas day, and it is safe to say that marketing, consumerism and all round festivities are well under way. But is it too early? The early feeling of Christmas has been spoken about a lot. Funnily enough there is evidence.