Reading time: 3 mins Being a parent is hard. It’s also rewarding, fun, tiring, expensive, and I wouldn’t change it for the world!… but it can be really overwhelming to have so much responsibility. You spend every single day making decisions for this tiny human who has no conception of what he’s doing most of the time, he’s just […]
Reading time: 5 mins It’s early Sunday morning, it’s been a ‘night’ and my plans for Sunday were looking a bit rocky. I was up early, drinking a coffee and going over all this in my head. I felt conflicted, and a bit desolate as I couldn’t seem to find a good solution. It’s something I’ve noticed creeping into […]
Reading time: 3 mins I’m almost approaching my first year at Allied Vehicles and I’m busier than ever but, looking back I can see how far things have come since I joined. It’s a very small team, in a very fast paced environment and a lot of what I’m trying to do is help mature our own processes. With […]
Reading time: 4 mins It was probably a few months before he was born that I really started to read up on the various aspects of what being a parent would mean. We bought books, read them in-depth, made notes and held study sessions so ensure we absorbed every morsel of information we could. Except we didn’t do that. […]
Reading time: 6 mins I am very very lucky. I live with, I married, I have a son with, my best friend. We don’t fight (occasionally disagree) and we talk a lot about our thoughts and emotions, call each other out when it’s needed, we support each other, we hug, we laugh, we kiss, we cry. We are good […]
Reading time: 4 mins Man up, sit downChin up, pipe downSocks up, don’t cryDrink up, don’t whine“Grow some balls,” he said“Grow some balls” The maskOf masculinityIs a maskA mask that’s wearing meThe mask, the mask, the mask Samaritans by Idles We want Jack to be kind, considerate, and thoughtful. We want him to be present, to live a happy […]