Our beautiful daughter Jessica was born in September 2011 with a severe heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome. This was diagnosed at her 20 week scan and we were initially told that she was unlikely to be suitable for surgery. However, a pioneering in-utero operation at 28 weeks to enlarge a hole in her atrial septum was carried out and she was able to make it to term and get through her first open-heart surgery at just eight hours old. Jessica underwent five more surgeries during her life. Her final surgery - the Fontan procedure - took place in December 2017. She initially made a good recovery but sadly passed away suddenly on 14th April 2018 at the age of 6. This is the story of a little girl whose half a heart overflowed with love. She was, and will forever be, our little miracle and brought joy to all who knew her.

Book Bench Challenge

The National Literacy Trust and Wild in Art have come together to create "Books about Town" - 50 book bench sculptures which will have been placed across London and will be there throughout the summer.  We decided to try and find them all as our summer challenge for 2014 and managed to find all 50.

#1 - Katie in London

#2 - Noughts and Crosses

#3 - A Brief History of Time

#4 - The Wind in the Willows

#5 - Stormbreaker: the graphic novels

#6 - Wisden Cricketers' Almanac

#7 - The Laura Marlin Mysteries

#8 - Brick Lane

#9 - Bridget Jones

#10 - Jacqueline Wilson

#11 - Mary Poppins

#12 - Fever Pitch

#13 - Peter Pan

#14 - Dickens in Liverpool

#15 - That's Not My Meerkat
#16 - The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy

#17 - Dr Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

#18 - On the Origin of Species

#19 - We're Going on a Bear Hunt

#20 - The Time Machine

#21 - Jungle Book

#22 - Elmer the Elephant

#23 - Captain Scott's Autobiography

#24 - The Railway Children
#25 - Shakespeare

#26 - Great Expectations

#27 - Paddington Bear

#28 - War Horse

#29 - Dr Seuss

#30 - Clarice Bean

#31 - Through the Looking Glass

#32 - How to Train Your Dragon

#33 - Discworld

#34 - Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson books

#35 - Jeremy Banx
#36 - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

#37 - Jeeves and Wooster stories

#38 - Sherlock Holmes stories

#39 - Mrs Dalloway

#40 - The Importance of Being Earnest

#41 - 1984

#42 - The Day of the Triffids

#43 - James Bond stories

#44 - Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly

#45 - Pride and Prejudice

#46 - Peter Pan (Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary)

#47 - Around the World in Eighty Days

#48 - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (Girl Engrossed)

#49 - Samuel Pepys' Diary

#50 - The Canterbury Tales

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