Well last night I think we had a breakthrough, Mum came to my house for an hour.

It was slightly awkward but the conversation went ' I got a new cancer victim scarf'

I replied ' I got a new cardigan'

Funny my boyfriend stayed out of the way and went upstairs for the entire duration if her visit.

He said it was family stuff and that he shouldn't be involved, but he is part of the family now and I think judging by the conversation we never even spoke about the issues that had led us not to be talking in the first place.

It was just normal conversation.

I was suprised at how well she actually looks, I was thinking that after a month of not seeing her I was expecting her to have deterioated. I think she actually wanted to stay a bit longer but I said I was doing tea and bathing my son etc.

So we'll see what happens this weekend, whether she come up again, I think it might take a bit of time to rebuild this, but we have made a start