Never Going Back?

It should be fairly clear by now that moving from Stoke-on-Trent to Little Hulton at the end of 2009 physically (although there’s an argument that I’d left before then) was very traumatic.  The difficulty of the transitional stage of working in Stoke-on-Trent whilst living in Little Hulton in January was a mental strain more than […]

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Dealing With The Difference

We are never the same.  When we say things like you haven’t changed what we actually mean is that any actual change we take as negligible or see enough of what we’re used to not to bother about anything different.  In reality as each new day brings new challenges and even if the responses are […]

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First Contact

Recently I was celebrating the birthday of my dear old mother and I do mean ‘dear’, and I do mean ‘mother’ and I do mean … So I was on about her and in reflecting the significant role she plays in my life since the beginning I recalled again that she was the first contact […]

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