Category: What maketh the man
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These don't count as New Years resolutions, more like commitments with a little bit of wriggle room. This has been one hell of a year, best forgotten for many reasons we all know. But for me, that all pales next to 2009 as the year my son was born, something I'll remember forever. This is…
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Right now I'm struggling with my image. This weekend, I took young Will to the supermarket and, pushing him aruond, happily asleep and outragously cute, I got the nod from other thirty something Dads with their little bundles of joy. Nothing has made me feel more pigeonholed into a demographic than pushing my boy around…
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In case you hadn't noticed, Yorkshire Tea is one of my favourite brands. I religiously warm the pot, take just a couple of careful stirs at the start and generally behave like a tea geek. It breaks my heart to say I hate the 'tea time' work. I'm sure it works, I don't know…
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There's a point around 5pm when you have to make a big tea decision. Do you make another pot, with all the warm, slow comfort that will bring (and perk you up for more stuff), with the risk you may be kept awake at night? On the other hand, do you see sense and have…
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One Friday afternoon I was a client Xmas party, and left just after the ice skating in the centre of Manchester (after wrenching my arm falling over while holding on to the railing).I had a quick 20 minutes to wander around the amazing German Christmas markets and it was, well, magical. Also, it was nice…
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There's a moment in every young man's life when Dad just being 'Dad' and becomes a person. You get some sense of how he feels about things, what he's going through, who he is. Luckily for me, that resulted in respect. That happened to me soon after I graduated. I was having a lovely time working…
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So it's five weeks since young Will was born. It was rollercoaster at the beginning, but things are sort of settling down. So it's probably the right time for a self indulgent post about what it feels like to be a new Dad. Some people seemed interested anyway. I'm not going to start talking about…
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Sorry to be boring, a Dad post again. Cannot resist… 1. You love his Mum more, even you thought that wasn't possible. Something about seeing them together….. 2. You understand your own father a little more. 3. Out of what you have time for, you get really good at editing what is a luxury and…
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Speaking of cadence, (see above and below depending on how you're reading this) with a new baby, the only cadence is that there isn't one. After extended parental leave, I can report that my boy is is beautiful, fit and healthy and I hate being away from him. I can also report that this blog…
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When you're a serious athlete you live a life of no half measures. Every training session is flat out (until you're tapering down for competition), there is no challenge, no pain or suffering that has not been addressed by the time the big day comes. That was my life for a while, and it was…
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