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I grew up in an age when received wisdom was ‘big boys didn’t cry, feelings were something to keep to yourself. Emotions were something girls had and boys didn’t need’. It’s perhaps captured in an old joke about the newly married Highland Presbyterian minister who said to his wife on their wedding night; “I love…

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The one constant in all this madness is uncertainty. When will it all be over? When will we be safe? What will our organisations, our communities, our cities, our nation be like when the crisis is over? What will I feel like? Will I cope? Will I be different? I was sent this poem by…

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At the start of April, we launched our #stepUP challenge – a way to make your stay at home exercises more meaningful by setting your own target and raising vital funds for our work. This week, Craig shares his experience riding 1000km in a month   When all this hit, I wanted to make sure…

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‘I will Zoom you tomorrow,’ is a sentence I would not have known the meaning of a month ago but is one I now use on a daily basis. It is one of the many legacies of this crisis which will last beyond it and hopefully will help make life easier and work more efficient….

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I have been trying to begin each morning with a walk round Lochend Park, which is about a 10 minutes walk from where I live. I head off early, around 6.45am, just as the park is waking up; ducks on the pond, swans looking for food, birds in the trees along with the occasional squirrel….

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