Confessions of An Abused Kid

I honestly have no idea how many times I have started this post and how many times I have subsequently deleted it. It has read as either too angry, too whiney or too pious so if you're reading it as a published piece of waffle then yay for me! I think the reason this has [...]

Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-ohhhh….. I’ll see myself out but please don’t block me…. Anyways...onwards and upwards. So we are almost 6 months in to 2025 and i have to be really honest and say that this has probably been one of the most peaceful and stable periods of my life since.....well I can't remember really. Homelife has settled [...]

Is anyone there??? Probably not but f#ck it, here goes…… It’s been a minute since I last wrote anything down here, well four years to be precise and although some things remain the same (Mal is STILL decorating,) I feel like my whole existence has gone through a pretty seismic change. COVID restrictions have been [...]

We like  a bit of a tagline don't we? The odd hashtag here and there, a strap line to our social media posts or selfies if you will. A few very short months ago in the aftermath of Caroline Flack's death it felt like the nation in its entirety was finally starting to understand the fragility [...]

So 2018 has come to an end and like many people I'm feeling a little introspective. I guess it's probably quite natural to feel this way as one year ends and another begins but I think the reason I'm so reflective just now is that 2018 has been a pretty definitive year for me. I've changed [...]

So here's the deal, after the last couple of posts I've realised a few things. Firstly it would seem that I spend quite a bit of time in Dundee and that's maybe coming across as me not really wanting to be in Aberdeen and escaping it as soon as I can. That could not be [...]

A few months back I parted ways with my old Mercedes and I'm not ashamed to say it utterly broke me. This was a car that I'd driven for years, something I'd fought tooth and nail to hang on to but the time eventually came to get rid. She wasn't a particularly grand old rig, [...]

Here's the thing, as I said a couple of weeks ago the first half of this year has been pretty mental what with house moves, home improvements, new jobs, Mal's blog erupting and all the other lovely stuff that life generally entails. That doesn't exactly leave me with an abundance of time to spend with [...]

So here's the thing, over the last few weeks I've noticed that there have been numerous bits and pieces in both local and national media relating to mental health, mental health services and service users. Many of these posts have appeared to be very negative with quite a few relating to "crises" in many different [...]

For those of you that didn't know, my partner Mal has his own blog documenting the trials and tribulations of renovating our little home in Aberdeen (see here) and to put it mildly his blog has utterly exploded, recently taking in a sponsored revamp of one of our rooms. This has meant that our last few months have been pretty [...]