Gareth Davies
@coachingintheround.co.uk
Therapeutic coach, counsellor, writer and generally queer at large in North East England
Here's what I wrote in 2031, which was among my reasons for leaving the Labour Party. Sometimes the only thing worse than being wrong is being right.
September 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Here's what I wrote in 2031, which was among my reasons for leaving the Labour Party. Sometimes the only thing worse than being wrong is being right.
Look what the postman brought - a great book whose title I've pinched for my talk at #Euromoot in three weeks time when I try to mash up #Tolkien #Dragons and #Welshness
September 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Look what the postman brought - a great book whose title I've pinched for my talk at #Euromoot in three weeks time when I try to mash up #Tolkien #Dragons and #Welshness
A great rider who modelled how to be a professional and a down to earth human being...
September 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
A great rider who modelled how to be a professional and a down to earth human being...
Yup, despite 20mph headwinds on the return leg this was a good day to be out and about on the bike...
August 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Yup, despite 20mph headwinds on the return leg this was a good day to be out and about on the bike...
Day two of the @pinktherapy.bsky.social conference as we all try to get into a conference frame of mind
August 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Day two of the @pinktherapy.bsky.social conference as we all try to get into a conference frame of mind
When I stop doing this I'll miss it but not as much as I miss racing #cycling #testing #racinginthestreet #raceoftruth
August 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
When I stop doing this I'll miss it but not as much as I miss racing #cycling #testing #racinginthestreet #raceoftruth
Remember, its not #NorthernPride if it's not accessible to all #DogsOfPride
July 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Remember, its not #NorthernPride if it's not accessible to all #DogsOfPride
This grumpy representative of #DogsOfPride at #NorthernPride wants to tell you that #TransRightsAreHumanRights and you'd better not argue....
July 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This grumpy representative of #DogsOfPride at #NorthernPride wants to tell you that #TransRightsAreHumanRights and you'd better not argue....
July 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Good to be out and about at #NorthernPride today
July 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Good to be out and about at #NorthernPride today
I spent some time yesterday messing with the idea of #kintsugi as a metaphor for the work #counsellors and #therapists do, and I may be quietly obsessed.
July 14, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I spent some time yesterday messing with the idea of #kintsugi as a metaphor for the work #counsellors and #therapists do, and I may be quietly obsessed.
New #poetry at open.substack.com/pub/garethth... - a poem that I wrote recently then edited on the fly at an open mic hosted by the terrific Amy Langdown amylangdown.co.uk/ooyh/
June 30, 2025 at 6:19 AM
New #poetry at open.substack.com/pub/garethth... - a poem that I wrote recently then edited on the fly at an open mic hosted by the terrific Amy Langdown amylangdown.co.uk/ooyh/
There are double yellow lines to prevent parked cars from obstructing the street, but apparently wheely bins privatising the pavement as a waste store are welcome in the brave new world.
June 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
There are double yellow lines to prevent parked cars from obstructing the street, but apparently wheely bins privatising the pavement as a waste store are welcome in the brave new world.
At the best ticket in Newcastle tonight - not #SamFender but the wonderful Brendan Cleary reading #poetry at the #Lit&Phil
June 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
At the best ticket in Newcastle tonight - not #SamFender but the wonderful Brendan Cleary reading #poetry at the #Lit&Phil
Monday morning and all the thumb stones are present and correct.
June 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Monday morning and all the thumb stones are present and correct.
No better way to spend half an hour than putting new handles and knobs (phnarrr phnarrr) on a forty year old set of saucepans that will probably last another forty years.
June 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
No better way to spend half an hour than putting new handles and knobs (phnarrr phnarrr) on a forty year old set of saucepans that will probably last another forty years.
Can't get the idea out of my head that this is what politics is like in the White House right now
June 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Can't get the idea out of my head that this is what politics is like in the White House right now
Sitting in the James Knott room at Newcastle's wonderful #LitandPhil with a copy of Shon Faye's The Transgender Issue to add to the reading pile...
June 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Sitting in the James Knott room at Newcastle's wonderful #LitandPhil with a copy of Shon Faye's The Transgender Issue to add to the reading pile...
As a social construction
#Splinters into shards of
Squandered energy and
Deconstructed dreams
Do we mourn the time
Invested in those hopes
Or do close the door
To that party, an
Abandoned institution
And invest the lessons
Engraved on the splinters
Like tally sticks bankrolling
Our future?
#vss365
#Splinters into shards of
Squandered energy and
Deconstructed dreams
Do we mourn the time
Invested in those hopes
Or do close the door
To that party, an
Abandoned institution
And invest the lessons
Engraved on the splinters
Like tally sticks bankrolling
Our future?
#vss365
June 3, 2025 at 6:05 AM
As a social construction
#Splinters into shards of
Squandered energy and
Deconstructed dreams
Do we mourn the time
Invested in those hopes
Or do close the door
To that party, an
Abandoned institution
And invest the lessons
Engraved on the splinters
Like tally sticks bankrolling
Our future?
#vss365
#Splinters into shards of
Squandered energy and
Deconstructed dreams
Do we mourn the time
Invested in those hopes
Or do close the door
To that party, an
Abandoned institution
And invest the lessons
Engraved on the splinters
Like tally sticks bankrolling
Our future?
#vss365
It's that time of the month when I do the ritual filling of medication boxes to try to combat my busily forgetful brain and its attention to all the wrong things each morning and night
May 31, 2025 at 9:34 AM
It's that time of the month when I do the ritual filling of medication boxes to try to combat my busily forgetful brain and its attention to all the wrong things each morning and night
My worry stones now have a box all their own on my desk - with my craft cutting board doing extra services as a mouse mat - just need to finish lining the box
May 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
My worry stones now have a box all their own on my desk - with my craft cutting board doing extra services as a mouse mat - just need to finish lining the box
Sometimes politics today reminds me of this chess set waiting to catch the unwary in the #LitandPhil in Newcastle - all the pieces are present, but not in the right places, so the usual set plays won't work.
May 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Sometimes politics today reminds me of this chess set waiting to catch the unwary in the #LitandPhil in Newcastle - all the pieces are present, but not in the right places, so the usual set plays won't work.
Incidentally if you're wondering why I had mausoleums in mind I was driving across towards Kiln Pit Hill when I stopped at Whittonstall - the skyline at Kiln Pit Hill is dominated by the magnificent Hopper Mausoleum s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01...
May 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Incidentally if you're wondering why I had mausoleums in mind I was driving across towards Kiln Pit Hill when I stopped at Whittonstall - the skyline at Kiln Pit Hill is dominated by the magnificent Hopper Mausoleum s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/01...