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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
 can you be a credit to this family and not a debit
can you be a credit to this family and not a debit
60 SomethingsSam BunchOctober 24, 2021menComment
You run out of life
You run out of life

I've told you I'm not a deep thinker

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50 SomethingsSam BunchOctober 17, 2021men Comments
I am someone who is calling out for his mother
I am someone who is calling out for his mother

Your nose is too small, your ears are too big and you haven't grown into your body yet

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20 SomethingsSam BunchOctober 10, 2021men Comment
Failing is about having the self confidence to fail
Failing is about having the self confidence to fail

Two thoughts came into my mind and both made my parents cry

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30 SomethingsSam BunchOctober 3, 2021menComment
We have to relate to the communities in which we find ourselves
We have to relate to the communities in which we find ourselves
70 SomethingsSam BunchSeptember 26, 2021menComment
I was posted to Christmas Island in the Pacific
I was posted to Christmas Island in the Pacific

Although your eyes were closed a silverish light penetrated you

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90 SomethingsSam BunchSeptember 10, 2021men Comments
Someone wanting you is too much to turn down
Someone wanting you is too much to turn down

The older I’ve got I feel I have less purpose

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50 SomethingsSam BunchAugust 22, 2021men Comments
They dont take crying boys in secondary school
They dont take crying boys in secondary school

I’m a young person trying to keep afloat

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20 SomethingsSam BunchAugust 8, 2021menComment
I am becoming more and more unhappy and prone to being judgmental impatient nasty and sarcastic
I am becoming more and more unhappy and prone to being judgmental impatient nasty and sarcastic

I am judgemental, cantankerous and grumpy

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60 SomethingsSam BunchJuly 18, 2021menComment
I get in my own way
I get in my own way

I've only ever known people like me

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30 SomethingsSam BunchJuly 4, 2021men Comment
I wasted a large amount of my life worrying
I wasted a large amount of my life worrying

I’ve realised the only thing holding me back is me.

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40 SomethingsSam BunchJune 27, 2021menComment
I worked to live not the other way round
I worked to live not the other way round

The sensation was like putting my fingers in an electric socket and it reverberating through my brain

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50 SomethingsSam BunchJune 20, 2021men Comments
Quite often you make things worse by overthinking it
Quite often you make things worse by overthinking it

Somedays I have a little freak out and think - shit, I’ve got a mortgage to pay…

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30 SomethingsSam BunchMay 30, 2021menComment
I have a black majority mindset
I have a black majority mindset

I only discovered I was actually black in a very racial sense when I came here

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40 SomethingsSam BunchMay 23, 2021menComment
I was trapped by the money
I was trapped by the money

I came out of the first session, sat in the car and cried for 15 minutes

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50 SomethingsSam BunchMay 16, 2021menComment
  I would stand on my dads feet and he would dance with me
I would stand on my dads feet and he would dance with me

My theory is if you ignore things for long enough they tend to disappear in the end

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60 SomethingsSam BunchMay 9, 2021men Comment
I am a content man
I am a content man

I blow small things out of proportion

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70 SomethingsSam BunchApril 25, 2021menComment
I dont want the whole conversation to be about COVID but it's been frustrating
I dont want the whole conversation to be about COVID but it's been frustrating

I find responsibilities suffocating

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30 SomethingsSam BunchApril 18, 2021menComment
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