by ToniKent | Aug 24, 2021 | education, Honesty, podcast, Social Mobility, university challenged
Looking for a decent listen that explores what it means to build an interesting, rewarding, successful career without going to uni? Then university, challenged is for you! Putting a podcast together has been something I’ve had on my list for a while but...
by ToniKent | Jul 8, 2021 | Family, Honesty, Parenting, Social Mobility
I’ll confess, I wasn’t keen on my son getting ‘into’ football. This makes me a traitor to my roots where football was the sport of choice and rugby was for “posh kids” or overweight retired policemen. I liked Chelsea because my dad...
by ToniKent | Jul 1, 2021 | Family, Parenting, Storytelling
What’s in a name? Your parents pick one for you and you either love it, loathe it, change it, or your mates decide that adding a ‘y’ on the end of your surname or calling you something entirely different would work better. The latter point seems...
by ToniKent | Jun 27, 2021 | Honesty, Mental Health, Storytelling
If you can’t go outside, go inside.” – seven words that made me wild with anger during the first lockdown. I’m sorry, but have you *seen* the inside of my head?! Served up on a multitude of social media platforms, this phrase struck me as a...
by ToniKent | Jun 7, 2021 | Family, Parenting
She propels herself through the water; head down, body sleek, arm over, then through, the water. Legs kicking, not splashing. Concentration creating flow. Grace, strength and power creating movement that looks effortless. Her head glances to the side; face just...
by ToniKent | Apr 12, 2021 | Family, Honesty, Social Mobility
I have been told that I am a less than desirable parent by my children on more than one occasion. You won’t be surprised to learn it coincides with times when they have been told ‘no’. I said “No” to a sub-standard coat that my daughter...
by ToniKent | Apr 11, 2021 | Grief
I dreamed about you again last night. We are laughing; you are funny, smiling, alive. And then I wake up and realise in the darkness of the room that the reason I dream of you is because you are gone. We haven’t been friends for that long in the grand scheme...
by ToniKent | Mar 22, 2021 | Events, Music, Performing, Storytelling
While we wait to hear what will become of the live music industry, I thought I’d take you on trip down memory lane to a moment in time where being in the presence of a legendary band transported the audience to a transcendental place….. A chilly December...
by ToniKent | Oct 26, 2020 | Honesty
When the Welfare Reform Act was introduced, Iain Duncan Smith was famously quoted as saying, “I could live on £53 a week if I had to”. A petition was set up to see if he would like to prove it but of course he could live on £53 a week ‘if he had...
by ToniKent | Apr 28, 2020 | Family, Honesty
If there’s one thing that worries me right now, it’s the pressure I hear my friends putting themselves under about homeschooling. And it’s mostly women. That’s not to say my male friends aren’t worried but it’s exclusively my...
