What’s The Deal With Wot The Folk?

We all have a tale to tell.  You know, those personal stories that may never be headline news, nor a box office hit, but that still need to be told.

Wot The Folk is the home of these everyday tales, the ones we all have to tell.

Ellie’s Tale

I was happily skipping through the chapters of my adult life, I’d ended up with a great guy, enjoyed my work with young people, busily shared good times with family & friends and welcomed the birth of an awesome son in 2010. 

Then, my tale took a surprising de-tour, I was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis when our son was just months old. That hadn’t been part of the plan, illness wasn’t in the script, nor was having to retire from the work I loved. I definitely wasn’t expecting the second diagnosis of incurable Cancer that happened in 2022, nor the long and often intense treatment journey that continues. Adapting to & accepting these changes wrote me a few challenging chapters of their own.

A pensioner since my thirties, I now find myself in an unexpected, unconventional, yet not at all unpleasant place. One where I welcome the time I have to ponder WTF?

Wot The Folk’s Tale

Wot the Folk was born from my desire to offer a bit of balance when it came to conversations with my son about his future, his hopes, his questions! 

It seemed that all-around us were BIG examples, a mass of stories which held a hint of pressure to achieve & to strive in a bid to replicate a similar scale for ourselves. 

But it got me thinking, the things that have influenced, touched and shaped me the most have so often been the seemingly simple, unexpected moments. And ones whose contributors could even be unaware.

So Wot The Folk came to be, an ever expanding home to real & honest tales.