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World Suicide Prevention Day takes place on Friday, 10th September 2021. This years’ theme, set by the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP ) is Creating Hope Through Action. Raising awareness World Suicide Prevention Day takes place every year and aims to start the conversation about suicide and to show that recovery is possible. IASP …
Dear Diary There are a lot of social media gurus/life coaches telling us all how we can best use our time to better ourselves during this lockdown. From encouraging us to start a new business (in this time of strife?), or get fit for summer, to calling us slackers if we don’t do something great, …
Dear Diary Now that the world and his wife are facing the challenges of working from home, people are finding different ways to communicate as Skype isn’t for everyone. For the past week everyone has been going on about Zoom so it came as no surprise when my boss announced that we should give it …
Dear Diary Having failed in my attempts to buy enough provisions (that’s what we’re calling shopping now) the last time I ventured out to the supermarket, I felt the urgent need to stock up the cupboards today. Armed with my shopping list of necessities and with no intention of stockpiling I drove to the supermarket …
Dear Diary When they say that hindsight is 20/20 they’re not bloody wrong! It’s Friday, I’ve been paid so it’s my day to do the monthly shop. Had I known last week that there would be sweet f*ck all on the supermarket shelves this week, I would have sacrificed my ‘get through to the end …
Dear Diary As to be expected many people are using humour as a coping mechanism during these unprecedented times. I, of course have taken to watching even more funny pet videos on Twitter. I’m currently restricting myself to only watching on Twitter because if I go on to YouTube, it will be game over and …
Dear Diary It’s my first day working from home since the office lockdown. I have to say, I missed working from home, I used to do it once a week. But because I only work 3 days a week now, my new boss really doesn’t like me doing it because reasons. Now look at us! …
Dear Diary Ever since I left work on 12 March, things have spiralled out of control. And I’m not just talking about the lack of toilet paper. I’m talking about social distancing from my colleagues at work. I was due back in the office tomorrow, Tuesday 17 March but got the call from my boss: …
Dear Diary Today is Friday 13 March. I don’t usually buy into the unlucky Friday the 13th bullshit but I’m making an exception today. The Covid19 epidemic has people moving extremely mad. I went to do my weekly shop today and couldn’t get any loo rolls, kitchen towels or hand sanitiser. It seems UK peeps …
The passing of John Hurt on 25 January, made me wonder if 2017 would be as awful to our favourite celebrities as 2016 was. I found out about his death by accident. I’m currently re-watching Merlin on Netflix in which Hurt voices the dragon. I’m watching the Season 4, episode Aithusa with James Callis and …
Earlier this year my colleagues and I were asked to give a 5 minute presentation on things that inspired us. Talking about myself and giving a presentation are two things guaranteed to set my nerves jangling so I thought I’d be clever and hide behind a spoken word/performance poem. I thought that by writing a …
10 September is World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD) and this year’s theme is ‘Preventing Suicide: Reaching Out and Saving Lives’. The aim of this international day is to increase awareness of the public health significance of suicide and suicide attempts. Suicidal thoughts are far more common than people realise but we just don’t talk about …
