Category Archive: Diversity

The day my son told me he was gay

  It was a couple of months ago that this occurred and I hadn’t actually intended to blog about it but it is something that I was thinking about again the other day so thought I’d… Continue reading

David Bowie – The passing of a Legend

  It was with great sadness that I learned that the musical legend David Bowie finally lost a very personal and privately fought battle with cancer. Unknown to most he had been diagnosed… Continue reading

Interview: Meet and Greet Monday – Blogger: Ivy Willow

Today I am posting the first in, what I hope to be, a new series of interviews with fellow bloggers, some of whom I’ve met along the way and some who I hope… Continue reading

An open letter: To parents whose child is ‘different’.

A short while ago I was visiting a friend and while there I was speaking to his son.  I had known him for some years and, while his dad was out of the… Continue reading

Great British Bake Off controversy…dun-dun-dunnnn!

  To those Neanderthals out there that cannot accept that someone can actually win something regardless of his or her sex, sexual orientation, ethnic/cultural origin or religious beliefs then…SHOCK HORROR…Muslim Woman wins Bake… Continue reading

Bloody foreigners, coming over here…taking our jobs…

Until recently it was very difficult to open a newspaper or turn on the television without hearing about all those ‘nasty’ migrants.  That was until a young boy called Aylan, who had drowned,… Continue reading

An NT’s life with an ‘Aspie’ wife.

I am Neurotypical.  My wife has Asperger’s.  For those of you who aren’t aware (though I’m assuming if you’ve found this post then, yes, you are) Asperger’s is an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (or… Continue reading

An irrational fear of gay spiders!

My Father, who sadly passed away a few years ago, was a Geordie. He raised six of us, mainly on his own, and, though he wasn’t a perfect Father, for me he was… Continue reading