Stumbling through life is a personal account of how I survived boarding school, featured in The Telegraph 'A Facade Finally Crumbles'. My boarding school was forgotten, it had not been inspected for fourteen years. My school damaged me, and paved the way for me to stumble into one traumatic situation after another. Running away from school, five failed marriages, kidnapping my two boys, my school created a domino effect that haunts me to this day. A mother without her boys, a grandmother without her grandchildren, and so it goes on.

A follow on from Stumbling Through Life. To escape the heartache and pain from my family, I take a trip to Russia with a bumbling professor. We end up in parts of Russia which according to the home office web page is like walking on Mars without a space suit. 'Blend in' my friend said, but instead we had tourists stamped on our foreheads. A black four by four parked up under a large tree was clearly noticeable, mainly because it was parked up alone away from the other cars. 'That has been there since the early hours of the morning, ' Andrew said, anxiously. I could tell he was tense he...