Rooksmoor's Tablets of Lead

It is probably unsurprising for anyone who has followed this blog in the past year, that this weekend I again tried to kill myself.  Having ...

Back in 1992, when I was a mere 24, I attended a wedding back in my home town.  Two of my friends who had been dating since they were at sch...

One effect of having a 7-year old child resident in your house is that the things he is experiencing often trigger of memories of events in ...

Back in July 2008, I warned men about the hazards of becoming a father and advised that any sane man avoid doing it. To some extent circumst...

Yesterday I read an open letter in the 'Family' section of 'The Guardian' from a mother of three children to them and also t...

I have been reading today that schools are encountering ever greater problems with children who constantly throw tantrums because they canno...

The British poet Philip Larkin (1922-85) wrote the following poem (beloved of bloggers it seems) in 1974: This Be The Verse They fuck you up...