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Like a lot of people my Mum wrote diaries. After she died we found 30 years worth! I thought they might have the answers to life’s big questions - they didn’t! She wrote simple, mundane, often funny, one liners about her everyday life: January 17th 1998, “The dog crapped all over the carpet!”. Her diaries made me think about other women and how they mange their everyday lives too. This hatched an idea: to interview 100 women and see what would happen. There were many reasons for this; a) I’m very curious, b) am I getting the best out of my life? and c) now Mum was gone, where was I going to get my life wisdom from? I came up with a list of questions loosely based on an ordinary, everyday conversation; How are you? How’s the kids, What’s the weather like today? I began collecting conversations. My discovery; a treasure chest of insight, humour and wise words. It seemed selfish to keep it all to myself so I started to blog and eventually wrote my first book. Collecting Conversations.

I never intended only talking to women so once I’d got my menopause out of the way I turned my focus to men. Lockdown honed me in. 100 men interviewed, three milliion words transcribed and my next book crystallised. ‘Men Talk’ is out now! Below are extracts from 200 interviews with both men and women…

All Ages
  • 20 Somethings
  • 30 Somethings
  • 40 Somethings
  • 50 Somethings
  • 60 Somethings
  • 70 Somethings
  • 80 Somethings
  • 90 Somethings
The People
  • men
  • women
The balance tips and I end up doing too much
The balance tips and I end up doing too much

Maggie 65 from Ireland. Lives in London. Widowed & divorced. Three grown up kids. A retired dinner lady.

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60 SomethingsSam BunchMay 28, 2017womenComment
I’m bored and unhappy
I’m bored and unhappy

Sunita 49 from Canada. Stay at home mum. Married and feeling trapped.

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40 SomethingsSam BunchMay 21, 2017womenComment
I’m not forgetful I just don’t remember.
I’m not forgetful I just don’t remember.

Pam 85 widowed twice. Two children, five grandchildren.

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80 SomethingsSam BunchMay 14, 2017womenComment
We always have to remember where we come from
We always have to remember where we come from

Sheryl 56, A free spirit from the Caribbean. She lives in London with her four children.

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50 SomethingsSam BunchMay 7, 2017womenComment
My behaviour frustrates me
My behaviour frustrates me

Caroline is 44. From Scotland. Lives in London with her husband and three children.

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40 SomethingsSam BunchApril 30, 2017womenComment
I would like to have been married and had children
I would like to have been married and had children

Alice 89 from East London. A retired shorthand typist and legal secretary. Never married or had children.

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80 SomethingsSam BunchApril 23, 2017womenComment
I know him better than he knows himself
I know him better than he knows himself

Libby 57 married. Works full time in a school as a teaching Assistant. She has two children and two grandchildren.

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50 SomethingsSam BunchApril 9, 2017womenComment
If I lost my voice it would be a tragedy
If I lost my voice it would be a tragedy

Jean 64. Divorced mum of two grown up children. Now retired and very much a free, independent spirit.

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60 SomethingsSam BunchApril 2, 2017womenComment
Life is a large story book
Life is a large story book

Diane 39 from Brixton. A single mum to six. Until recently she worked as a traffic warden.

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30 SomethingsSam BunchMarch 26, 2017womenComment
I love to belt out Elvis songs!
I love to belt out Elvis songs!

Rose, 67. Married from London. She has two grown up children and works full time as an administrator in a primary school.

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60 SomethingsSam BunchMarch 19, 2017womenComment
It’s a jolly good life - investigate
It’s a jolly good life - investigate

Shelagh 82 from Wales. Retired doctor. Mother of two. Married twice. Now lives in Barnes, South London.

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80 SomethingsSam BunchMarch 12, 2017womenComment
I can tell a bullshitter straight away
I can tell a bullshitter straight away

Ruby 65 from Liverpool. She's single and lives in London. She has one adopted child.

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60 SomethingsSam BunchMarch 5, 2017womenComment
Life is about relationships, nothing else matter
Life is about relationships, nothing else matter

Frances is 47. Married mum of two. Homemaker likes looking at the finer details of life.

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40 SomethingsSam BunchFebruary 26, 2017womenComment
What we show to the world isn’t necessarily what’s going on on the inside. 
What we show to the world isn’t necessarily what’s going on on the inside. 

Rosie 49. From America, lives with her long term partner and has two children. She's just written her first book.

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40 SomethingsSam BunchFebruary 19, 2017womenComment
I think about what ‘should’ have happened
I think about what ‘should’ have happened

Kathy 41 is married and has two children. A food technologist from London

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40 SomethingsSam BunchFebruary 12, 2017womenComment
I think it’s something to do with having my ovaries taken out.
I think it’s something to do with having my ovaries taken out.

Alison 47 married with five children. Born and bred in London with her extended family living close by.

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40 SomethingsSam BunchFebruary 5, 2017womenComment
Don’t waste time on trying to change people
Don’t waste time on trying to change people

Charlotte 44, lives with her long-term partner and has two children. She works in sales.

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40 SomethingsSam BunchJanuary 29, 2017womenComment
If you can’t have a good old chin way about the British weather then you need to climb out of your arse!
If you can’t have a good old chin way about the British weather then you need to climb out of your arse!

Nicola 48, lives in London with her husband and daughter and is never far from a good book or two.

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40 SomethingsSam BunchJanuary 22, 2017womenComment
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