The Just A Dad Playbook
Vol. 01: Still Standing.
The survival mindset for solo dads.
Five years of this blog. The raw posts, the 2am ones, the ones I nearly didn’t publish. Pulled together with worksheets, reflection prompts, and a section where I look back on each piece and tell you what I actually know now that I didn’t then.

The Silence.

I’ve been quiet on here. Like, properly quiet. The kind of quiet where you start to wonder if the bloke who used to word-vomit his feelings onto the internet every…
Priority one: MENtal Health

So this was me last Saturday night. Scared, super emotional and stressed beyond measure. And I don’t ever want to feel like that again. I was at home on the…
A life evolved

Well fuck me. Here I am at 49 still wondering wtf has happened, wtf is going on and wtf will happen next. A crystal ball would struggle to pluck a…
So much yet so much

Omg i haven’t written in literally for ever. Words used to flow from me like wine flows into me 🤦🏼♂️😂. I have meant to, even made resolutions to, but for…
Division: the cost of covid

Division; the real cost of covid This bloody pandemic sucks a big fat hairy one in more ways than one. Wearing masks sucks. Not being able to travel or even…
The greenest grass

There seems to be a proliferation of anniversaries and celebratory milestones of recent amongst those that I follow through the threads of the social media world. Which is awesome to…
