Tag: man alive

LOST FOR WORDS: A NEW BOOK BY ME, MY SON AND MANY OTHER BEREAVED CHILDREN

.Reading time 5 minutes.

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 Grief Awareness Week 2019. The book is made up of advice and insights by children across the UK, bereaved from […]

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TALKING BOLLOCKS AT THE BARBERSHOP

.Reading time 7 minutes.

I went for a haircut last week and got chatting to my regular barber, Joe. He’d had a pretty dramatic chop himself, apparently for his sister’s wedding over the summer. ‘Yeah, I took one for the team,’ he explained. I smiled at the thought of a man who cuts hair for a living still being […]

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BACK TO SCHOOL, BACK TO INSECURITY

.Reading time 6 minutes.

‘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 same school as the year before, with the same pupils and even, for the time being, the same teacher. I […]

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LIFE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

.Reading time 4 minutes.

I used to feel like I was missing something when it came to art, like maybe I’d skipped the most important lesson at school or something. I would go to galleries and exhibitions and pretend to ‘get it’ but, truthfully, I didn’t have a clue what I was looking at or what I was supposed […]

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