This is Scarfell Pike, England's highest mountain. Two weeks today Chris will run a marathon, part of which will include running up &...

I was reading a news report the other day into the death of a teenager. I often find a compulsion to read other stories of horrific...

The run up to Lauren's 15th Birthday has been a busy one. Alongside the usual family events we've also been getting organised for our...

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I now know that time is not a great healer, in fact it does fuck all. It just goes by, day by day, changing nothing. I change things The...

In two weeks time I'll be walking my last #5kadayforalderhey. By then I'll have covered over 2500 km (or the distance from my house to...

It's is often said that a little bit of knowledge can be a bad thing, and I guess the same can be said for the knowledge of grief. Last...

It feels like there are stories in the media every day regarding the deaths of children's and young adults. I don't know if I'm just...

It's been all about Alder Hey for these last few days Firstly, I went to The Delph Watersport Centre with some other members of Team Loz...

When Lauren was at Alderhey, hooked up to numerous beeping machines, we all experienced a strange situation. We knew it was Lauren lying...

I've been that busy walking (& more recently swimming) that I missed a landmark distance. I have now walked/riden/swum over 2000km for...

I've been listening to a podcast recently by Simon Thomas. It's called Life Interrupted, and he interviews people who have had their...

As the country starts to slowly re-emerge from its cocoon of covid avoidance, I am having a swirling mixture of emotion. On one hand the...

Definition: Normalcy bias, is a cognitive bias which leads people to disbelieve or minimise threat warnings. People fail to comprehend...

Friends have been asking how I'm feeling on the run up to Mothers Day. "I'm fine" tends to be the stock response. Which loosely...

When you lose a loved one time becomes something you think about a lot, the time you had and the time you've lost. You think about happy...

The complete drudgery of Lockdown#3 has led to very little to write about. The return of homeschooling and home-workouts has lacked the...

Recently Keira Knightley has been in the press discussing her aversion to sex scenes specifically with male directors. One of the things...

As we enter the second year I feel, certainly at this moment, that I am on more of a philosophical pathway. The first year was all...

The anniversary of Lauren's funeral did not have the same impact on me as the anniversary of her death. When I look back on her funeral,...