April 25, 2021
My son went back into his office this week for the first time in many months. “Have you got everything?” Peering into his bag, “Rail pass, laptop charger, wallet, I think so.” “Passport?” He seemed genuinely excited like he was going on holiday. The children have been sanguine about time out from the lives they […]
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April 18, 2021
I think I always knew that I don’t like goat’s cheese but it’s only relatively recently that I came to realise I don’t need to. Some years ago, before that epiphany, I was on holiday and a persuasive man in a French market told me that he had a hard goat’s cheese which would convert […]
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April 11, 2021
Sitting in the waiting room at the hospital I am thinking about a question I was sent by a young man who has moved cities to start a new job and feels that none of his co-workers like him. He writes that however cheery and pleasant he is he remains an outsider and convinced that […]
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April 4, 2021
I’ve realised this week that I have become a weekday vegetarian. I only know this because on Wednesday nobody felt like cooking and the children decided to get take-out from Nando’s. “What do you want?” my son asks me as I’m flicking through the menu on my phone. “Umm, I’ll have the Beanie Burger” My […]
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March 28, 2021
I’ve been researching and writing a piece on “Hustle Culture” this week which has taken a lot more time than I’d anticipated. As a consequence, I have got behind with my other work. One evening, after we’ve cleared the dinner plates I say, “I’ve got to finish an “Ask A Therapist” question that was due […]
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