This is a preview of the foreword of Lost for Words, a new book created by the Life Matters task force – a coalition calling for better support for bereaved families – to mark Children’s […]
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BRAVING THE RELAUNCH
My late wife, Desreen, was very funny. She had a completely different take on the world to anyone else I’ve ever met. For instance, after she’d given birth to our son she never really spoke […]
THE WORLD’S YOUR LOBSTER: THE TRAVELS OF A FATHER AND SON
Idiosyncrasies are what make individuals so interesting, but they can also make them really annoying if they are totally at odds with your own learned and acquired behaviours. I find few things more uncomfortable than […]
‘WE’RE NOT HERE TO RELAX’: THE TRAVELS OF A FATHER AND SON
Travelling with someone you love is just like living with them, only more intense. I remember being in Laos with my late wife once and realising she hadn’t said a word to me for two […]
THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD: THE TRAVELS OF A FATHER AND SON
Much to my surprise, I found this next entry in the notes on my iPhone yesterday afternoon. It was entirely written by my son on the first day of our six-week trip round Italy last […]
BACK TO SCHOOL, BACK TO INSECURITY
‘I don’t like my school anymore,’ my six-year-old son told me after his first day in year two last week. ‘I haven’t got any friends.’ This seemed peculiar given that he is still attending the […]
