My dad passed away yesterday. It wasn’t sudden nor a shock – he’d been on end-of-life care since Christmas 2024 – but he was my daddy, and I’m deeply saddened. Diane and I went to the care home yesterday to organise a few things. Death comes with an awful lot …
I was a shy child. Well, that’s not entirely true – rather, I was aware of being weird and kept quiet in order to appeal normal. It didn’t always work and I was often bullied. So I shrank away from the other kids, growing up into an adult that avoided …
I had my ADHD assessment this morning, and I absolutely have it. I was fairly sure, but the assessor marked me high on hyperactivity, which came as a much bigger surprise than the inattentiveness. It turns out that hyperactivity looks very different in girls/women to boys/men. In general, boys are …
Although I had an anxiety attack at Cross Roads, I dismissed it as a one-off – a result of a stressful week. Then a week last Saturday, it happened again. I’d signed up to join Bolton Pride with my choir, but couldn’t find parking with the road closures in place. …
