Allow me to introduce myself.

Line drawing from www.bergsma.com that I have coloured.

Hi, I'm Mandy, and I'll be your constant companion through these posts. I'm a mother to three and a partner to one who currently lives in Clacton, Essex, UK. I'm in my forties, a bit random, more than a little bit weird and pretty eclectic. As well as looking after the children and the house, I dabble in writing, knitting, crocheting, gardening and my new found love, colouring. Yes, you heard me right - colouring. It's not just for kids, you know!!

So, what's the purpose of this blog? Well, if I'm honest its purpose is many fold.  I am unlucky enough to suffer from Fibromyalgia (at least my rheumatologist and my doctor tell me that that will end up being my end diagnosis) which is a chronic condition that involves a lot of pain, memory and cognitive difficulties and mobility problems. If you've not heard of it before and would like to find out more about the condition, hop on over to the Fibroduck Foundation and have a read. So one of my main goals is to highlight an illness that not many people have heard of.

Another reason for the blog is so I can have something to focus on. With Fibro it can be difficult to string more than a couple of days together coherently - and if I blog about something - ANYthing - I can have a progression of days which, I'm hoping, will make sense.

And yes, I also want to share all the mad, brilliant, zany, creative and even sometimes boring stuff that I do. I want to show you the colourings I've completed, the mittens I've made, the poem I've written, the flowers I've grown in my garden, the culinary disasters and the weird stuff that I've found both in the real world and on the Internet.

So, with that said, are you still with me? Yes? Good.

Then buckle up.

You're in for one hell of a ride.....