• Depression sucks
    You may have heard depression described as a black dog. Well I like (?) to think of it as a vacuum cleaner that trundles round after you. Vacuum cleaners are useful, they take away all the unwanted dust, but instead depression is like a vacuum cleaner gone rogue, sucking the life out of things. My…
  • Father’s day
    To all the dads out there, whatever age or stage. I know that this is a day that for many will be tinged (or even totally covered) with sadness and difficulty. But I just wanted to encourage you all, at whatever age and stage you are at to be the Dad you can be now….
  • What am I even doing?
    In my last post I talked a bit about the feeling of loneliness when my wife went away for one day, and that started a bit of a discussion about my love language. The language that I speak in is works of service. I’m a doer. And I think I’ve always been that way. If…
  • Lonely, I’m so lonely
    So my wife went away for a night for a work conference thing. And because of that, and my long days at work, we had to put the dog in with our dog sitter. So coming home from work last night was great, I had the house to myself, no-one else to think about. I…
  • Who are you?
    A deep question to start off with. or maybe not, let me introduce myself. I am Matt, I live in Norfolk in the UK, I am a Dad to two not so small humans, J (12) and T (11), step dad to three definitely not small humans (in their 20’s), owner of one furry Lucher…