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‘Gloom is good’: after my wife died I found solace in poetry and music
You can’t fight death, sickness, ageing and life’s various indignities, but you can play very loud rock’n’roll
Ian Whitwham
04, Feb, 2024 @12:00 PM
Scared, angry, inept – that’s me, the carer
As Ian Whitwham recovered from a stroke, his wife was diagnosed with cancer. In his new, reversed role, he charts the rollercoaster of her illness
Ian Whitwham
21, Oct, 2017 @5:30 AM
The bomb that went off in my head
Ian Whitwham was reading to his granddaughter when he lost the ability to speak. A stroke had laid him low
Ian Whitwham
27, Aug, 2016 @5:15 AM
How to get your kids to 18, sane and not hating you
Seven writers offer parenting tips they wish they had been given when they were starting out
Emma Beddington, Louise Chunn, Mike Power, Adrian Mourby, Rachel Douglas, Emma Cook, Sasha Scott and Ian Whitwham
06, Feb, 2016 @5:59 AM
‘This grandfather gig? It’s a breeze’
Ian Whitwham is thrilled to be a grandfather for the first time, but has a tough act to follow. His daughters adored their maternal grandfather, Grandad Poppy, who was a hero in their eyes
Ian Whitwham
25, Oct, 2014 @5:30 AM
How I learned to love Skype
After Ian Whitwham left home, his mother would tramp to a phone box each week to check he was eating his greens. Could he cope with the intimacy of Skype to speak to his daughter when she moved to New York?
Ian Whitwham
19, Oct, 2013 @6:15 AM
They wanted Holland Park academy to look unlike a school. They got that right | Ian Whitwham
Ian Whitwham: My old school's still attracting tabloid comment – now it's 'turnaround' praise. But when it was a comprehensive it had soul
Ian Whitwham
05, Nov, 2012 @3:30 PM
Goodbye to Mr Poppy: the strange world of grief
My father-in-law has died, but how should we mourn in the modern world? Did the Victorians have it right with their black veils and Tennyson? By Ian Whitwham
Ian Whitwham
29, Jun, 2012 @11:05 PM
Goodbye to urban paranoid
Ian Whitwham on retiring to the seaside
Ian Whitwham
06, Mar, 2010 @12:06 AM
Does Salinger's Catcher still ring true? | Ian Whitwham
Ian Whitwham: In the 1960s, I was inseparable from my copy of Salinger's masterpiece. Today's teenagers aren't as impressed
Ian Whitwham
29, Jan, 2010 @5:30 PM
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