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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 10/01/2026

I was lucky enough to be at the online launch of this terrific book last night & was struck by how much context is everything. In the week that a GSRD woman was killed by the new stormtroopers of the American regime a book that might otherwise have been a celebratio looks like part of the fightback.

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 05/01/2026

Yup, its cold outside, it snowed more overnight but as ever the dawn brings promises of better to come...

A snowy field, with houses to the right and a dockyard in the distance, with the sun rising through leaden clouds.

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 11/10/2025

Autumn is the best season for dog walking in the urban woodlands around the reclaimed colliery site where I walk the dog 🐕 #Blyth

A view of golden sunlight through cramped and crowded trees

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 25/09/2025

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.

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 13/09/2025

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

Close up pic of the cover of 'The Dragon Has Two Tongues' by Glyn Jones

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 08/09/2025

A great rider who modelled how to be a professional and a down to earth human being...

Picture shows a middle aged cyclist on the kit of Barnesbury CC next to Geraint Thomas by the side of the team sky bus olin Northumberland.

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 31/08/2025

Yup, despite 20mph headwinds on the return leg this was a good day to be out and about on the bike...

A blue sky with clouds above a sand dune with grass blackened by a recent fire

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 23/08/2025

Day two of the @pinktherapy.bsky.social conference as we all try to get into a conference frame of mind

Picture of a PowerPoint slide advertising a conference on GSRD therapy

Picture of a middle aged white man wearing a rainbow lanyard

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 10/08/2025

When I stop doing this I'll miss it but not as much as I miss racing #cycling #testing #racinginthestreet #raceoftruth

Two tables in a village hall with sign in sheets and fluorescent numbers for riders in a cycle race

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 19/07/2025

This grumpy representative of #DogsOfPride at #NorthernPride wants to tell you that #TransRightsAreHumanRights and you'd better not argue....

Bulldog in a multi coloured neckerchief on wet pavement

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 14/07/2025

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.

A small cracked ceramic bowl is being repaired with filler and pink highlights on the cracks.

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 30/06/2025

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/

The image is a nineteenth century print of a victim being tortured to the fourth degree by the Portuguese inquisition - they are suspended from a ceiling with weights being added to a roe around their waist, while a cleric records their answers.

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 24/06/2025

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.

A row of wheeled bins are grouped around the rear exit of a wetherspoons pub in Blyth, Northumberland

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 12/06/2025

At the best ticket in Newcastle tonight - not #SamFender but the wonderful Brendan Cleary reading #poetry at the #Lit&Phil

Brendan Cleary, grey haired but full of energy reading poetry at the Lit and Phil I'm Newcastle

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 09/06/2025

Monday morning and all the thumb stones are present and correct.

Small wooden box with a collection of stones used for calming nerves

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 07/06/2025

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.

Set of saucepans with replacement handles made from Iroko hardwood

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 07/06/2025

Can't get the idea out of my head that this is what politics is like in the White House right now

Dirty Den, from BBC soap opera East Enders, hands his unaware wife Angie a divorce letter, and wishes her merry Christmas

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 03/06/2025

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...

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 03/06/2025

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

Image of a tally stick clearly showing the irregular line that splits the stick in two, enabling it to be a token of trade or a form off contract between the holders of the two separate parts.

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 31/05/2025

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

A peak flow meter used by asthmatics to self manage their condition and an inhaler for asthma drugs rests on top of a monthly set of dosette boxes

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 16/05/2025

I found a short #poem from a collection that I never quite followed through on - I was still proud of this one though #poetry

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 16/05/2025

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

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 08/05/2025

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.

A wooden chess set in the Literary and Philosophical society in Newcastle, but with pieces misplaced.

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 07/05/2025

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...

Hopper Mausoleum - an ornate Gothic and grotesque family tomb in the graveyard of St Andrews church.

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 07/05/2025

#vss365 In a country graveyard A child sized memorial offers a Plain spoken #elegy to a daughter Loved and missed, as Eloquent as any mausoleum that reaches Across generations and distance and Into my heart. #Whittonstall

A small, childsized memorial to a much loved daughter in Whittonstall churchyard

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 02/05/2025

For election day, I decided to have a wander round the beautiful Tyne Valley and to ignore the political noise. This building seemed like a beautiful metaphor for the day.

Dilapidated building set in countryside in the Tyne Valley, with trees behind and sheep with lambs at foot in the foreground.

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 30/04/2025

I was out taking photos of a bike race on Sunday when this blackbird flew over, nest building. She inspired me.

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 27/04/2025

My workplace for the next 150 mins....

View of the road junction below the quarry between matfen and ingoe in Northumberland

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 27/04/2025

So I'm in a beautiful village hall in rural Northumberland where much to my pleasure it seems common sense prevails....

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 20/04/2025

It's a pot Jim but not as we know it, and as a first attempt I'm not totally gutted.

A misshapen clay pot on a wooden bench, with tools alongside it.

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 18/04/2025

That's not what Judge Tinnion said in para 23 of his case management decision when he specifically commented on the failure of the trust to bring an application to strike out the action against Dr Upton. Why are you trolling like this?

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 17/04/2025

When you walk in your favourite library and this is the first book you see

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 13/04/2025

The church in question is this one - at Stannington in Northumberland

View if the eastern end of Stannington church

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 12/04/2025

As well as poetry and writing, I do have a longing to be a photographer. It's something I experienced as a viewer for decades, despite growing up six miles from an art college with a truly great documentary photography course that I thought was not for the likes of me.

monochrome picture of a sdockyard crane with two arms, with large reels of cable for underwater installations in the foreground

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 31/03/2025

Reading Wordsworth's poem above Tintern Abbey And remembering the #euphoria and the Glorious pleasures of one boyish evening Singing heavenly praises into the evening sky. Wordsworth had no knowledge of the thoughts His lines would provoke, but I hope he would smile At my memory. #vss365

Turner's understated picture of the ruins of Tintern Abbey wreathed in plants and creepers.

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 31/03/2025

It's #TDOV2025 and here's the thought for the day - Trans people won;t go away even if Wes Streeting wishes they would - their need to be trans is real and fundamental to who they are - refusing to recognise that doesn't, in my eyes, change them.

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 26/02/2025

Has the forward march of queerness halted? Reflections as a therapeutic coach and lifelong activist on where we are, and where we go next coachingintheround.co.uk/f/the-forwar...

Pride progress flag with text asking if the forward march of queerness has halted

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 24/02/2025

OK, so for those who are north of the Tyne, where am I and where is this lovely clock? #northeast #northumberland

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 31/01/2025

What better book for a gentle wait at the beach? Both fabulous and challenging...

Copy of book about Tolkien and. Politics

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 21/01/2025

The dimming of the day can be beautiful at this time of year

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 15/01/2025

This moment was brought to you by this morning's moment of silently waiting.

An AI portrait of a bearded man sitting in an armchair, depicted in a style derived from one of Edward Hopper's interiors.

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 11/01/2025

If you told young me that one day I'd be doing therapeutic coaching by a beach where surfers enjoy the waves I'd have refused to believe it - my work is so joyful #therapy#coaching #outdoors #walkandtalk

Beach with a surfer carrying their board out of the waves

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 07/12/2024

In my writing I sometimes use AI software to produce images of places or people I want to describe. I was working on how I promote outdoor therapy after christmas, and my AI software gave me this image that suggests my software knows me too well, but doesn't have a good grasp of boundaries!

Two men in formal wear walking away from the camera and towards the light, holding hands.

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 30/11/2024

I did contemplate that, but the monstrous beast I share this space with (AKA Teddy the shi'itzu) sleeps on the landing by the office door and demands attention if woken!

Picture shows a small. And scruffy white shi'itzu dog sitting on a sofa and looking at the camera.

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Gareth Davies @coachingintheround.co.uk · 29/11/2024

Yup, I finally have the chapter plan for my latest attempt at a novel completed. #writingcommunity

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