National News Interviews on Testing and Down's Syndrome

Relaxing with our Girls

"Right girls, lets make some popcorn and go and sit on the sofa and cuddle up." 

It was time to watch Pets with the Xtra Factor Strictly Do the Most Talented Things Whilst Coming to Dine with Me or whatever it is that's on on a Saturday evening these days. Daddy Downs Side Up was away, and we had a girlie evening planned.

We'd been in our pyjamas for the last hour and had just taken our lovingly made meringue for the Big Lunch out of the oven ready for the next day. I was washing the last of the dishes and had poured a glass of something cold, crisp and white in readiness for full relax mode.

An ordinary Saturday turned into a media day in minutes

The phone rang. Thinking it was Daddy, Mia answered it with an excited "Hiya!" Silence while someone spoke on the other end of the line. 

Chatty Natty on ITV Lorraine Show: The Face of Representation

Did you ever have a moment in your life that was so exciting, so surreal that you weren't sure if you dreamt it up? 

The kind of moment where you are plucked from your ordinary life and sucked into a parallel universe for the briefest of whiles, before being plopped back safe and sound, albeit exhausted and clutching a few souvenirs?

Well, if it weren't for two pink Lorraine clocks in the girls' bedrooms, I would indeed be wondering if I had dreamt up our trip to London to feature live on the ITV Lorraine Show.