If any press offices are overwhelmed due to the incidents in my home town of #Southport this week, please do reach out and I’ll see if I can help.
If any press offices are overwhelmed due to the incidents in my home town of Southport this week, please do reach out and I’ll see if I can help.
More help here for those who need it right now and further down the line. Thank you @GriefPros
For those who need child bereavement support right now @griefencounter @cbukhelp @winstonswish and for adults @CruseSupport with love from Southport ❤️
While I am available to write and edit copy, I’m just sharing this passage out of sheer disbelief. You might have to read it a couple of times to be able to process the error.
“Dad, we’re watching Romeo & Juliet at school, and I cried when Mercutio died.”
Excellent. He’s engaged in literature, sensitive enough to appreciate the drama, and actually talking to me about school for one.
“Oh, and Dad, Juliet’s fit!”
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It can take a really long time to make change happen and I know how hard everyone behind this worked in the name of bereaved families. I’m absolutely delighted for everyone involved. Amazing dedication to the cause.
📢BREAKING!
After more than a decade of campaigning, we're delighted that MPs have this evening finally voted to extend bereavement benefits to grieving families with children where the parents were cohabiting
Our statement
childhoodbereavementnetwork.…
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It’s baffling how impatient some adolescents are for things they want until they are tasked with fulfilling the need themselves. Then it never really needs sorting.
After a few months out to address some of life’s little challenges, I’m pleased to say I’m back working with people and organisations I trust and admire, and this time only doing what I love the most: writing benbrooksdutton.com
“This World Cup isn’t it, I’ll be real.” My 12-year-old’s text messages never fail to put a smile on my face.
Having to sew my son’s blazer this evening reminds me of the time my mum pinned a hole in the crutch point of my trousers and then forgot the finish the job with a needle and thread. I’ll never forget the pain in biology (you could make it up) the next day.
Any MP who is seriously suggesting #BorisJohnson makes a comeback would be better placed scriptwriting for the Eastenders Christmas special
“Dad, can you make my breakfast because it was my birthday yesterday?”
“You birthday literally couldn’t be any further away now, so today you’re back to making your own.”
I just told my mum that recent blood tests showed my iron levels are too high and that red meat, shellfish, alcohol and vitamin supplements can make them worse. “You best cut down on vitamins then, sweetie.” 🤣
I’m completely covered in paint, the whole kitchen smells of paint, and it’s very clear that I’ve been painting for two days. 11-year-old son asks, while staring endlessly into his phone, “What you been up to today?” Adolescents live in absolute bubbles.
‘On my mum’s birthday we made a cake.
My dad says there are no rules on birthdays so we ate it for breakfast instead of waiting until tea.
He promised me we can do that every year now.
A new tradition to remember my mum with a smile.’
Today’s 🎂 day ❤️ manalive.life/2022/09/10/how…







