Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life

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Jay also meets school pupils and adults who struggle with reading and writing, as he discovers the human stories behind the nation’s literacy statistics. Read this book, open your mind and open your heart, then you will come to an understanding of how we ought to live too. In May 2022 he appeared in a three-part series on Channel 5 revisiting the area he grew up in, and interviewing childhood friends, experts, and witnesses to history.

BBC One - Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51 BBC One - Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51

And throughout these pages his charisma, optimism and humor shine brightly even when addressing the darkest topics.The fabric of Jay's life apparently constitutes a weft of ebullient happiness anchored down by the warp of failure and depression. THE BAD: Painful to read about vents that happen decades ago when racism run rampant in many levels of the UK's society. The themes and topics of the fifty years of Jay Blades’ life covered in Making It are sadly all too familiar in today’s society. All in all, I think you get a very interesting insight into the actual human that is Jay Blades, not the TV persona, not a public persona, the real deal.

Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair

He possesses an innate intelligence and sense of justice as well as never writing off the underdogs. This is true of his schemes to help disadvantaged youth, of which three are described in detail (Mr. Hearst UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 30 Panton Street, Leicester Square, London, SW1Y 4AJ. Others needed more specialist help, which gradually winnowed the students down until there was just one left.

Jay Blades has announced his latest project – a new book sharing his lessons from the ups and downs of life. Her brain resisted all attempts to unlock the mystery for her, until the teacher realised the student was a kinaesthetic learner and had wooden letters made for her. I spent a long time being this macho man': Jay Blades on love, loss and the liberating power of tears". More than eight million adults in the UK have poor literacy skills, and half of all prisoners either can’t read or struggle to do so.

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and I do think that the book indicates that he's trying to live by the credo that he closes the book out with: " all you can do is be good".An expert at giving a second life to cherished items, Jay’s positivity, pragmatism and kindness shine through these pages and show that with care and love, anything can be mended. In August 2021, Blades filmed a documentary programme for BBC One, Jay Blades: Learning to Read at 51, depicting his recent attempts, with the support of the charity Read Easy UK, to improve his literacy. I have huge respect for him after reading about his successes, failures and how he’s persevered through it all to arrive at the place he’s now at. She ran her hands over them and understood immediately what teachers had been trying to tell her for 40 years.