A personal home for stories, faith, creativity, fatherhood, and life rebuilt with grace. This site gathers together current reflections, old blog experiments, creative projects, and the more human side of the work behind Media Sussex and YourStory Video. Some of it is polished, some of it is archived, and some of it is simply part of the story.
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About this site
I'm a Sussex-based creative, dad, storyteller, web designer, videographer and recovering overthinker. I spend a lot of my life making things, filming stories, building websites, writing thoughts down and trying to make sense of the messy middle of real life. SH61 is my personal home for faith, fatherhood, creativity, old blog experiments, and the ongoing attempt to find hope, humour and grace in it all.
Thanks for visiting and I hope that you find it amusing, helpful or mildly interesting.
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Latest Writings
Ghost Stories
I remember listening to the livestream launch party for Coldplay’s 2014 album, titled Ghost Stories while working in my home office many moons ago. The album resonated with me in a weird way because typically I love lyrics that speak to me and that I could sing and…
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A New Chapter, Not a New Story
I didn’t set out to make a statement. I mostly set out to tidy a website. This website has been in need of some attention for a long time now. Gradually reshaping it over the last few months in-between jobs and life – the website story actually gained…
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Forty
Forty is one of those stop and take stock moments. Sounds cliche and a bit like something everyone who’s turned 40 says. I’m pretty sure every milestone after 20 has its own poignancy actually. But 40 has felt like an accelerated run towards whatever future I’m working towards.…
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My Businesses
I run a small collection of creative and practical businesses, mostly built around storytelling, design, marketing, websites, and helping other businesses present themselves well. This site brings a few of those strands together, alongside the personal projects and older ideas that still feel part of the same story.
HeartCo
The umbrella brand for creative, purpose-led projects built around story, people and meaningful work.
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Media Sussex
Websites, design and digital support for businesses that need practical, creative help to grow online.
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YourStory Video
Natural, cinematic videography for weddings, families, pets and businesses, capturing real stories beautifully.
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