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For Issue 14 of Living Proof Magazine, Charlie Birch is featured in conversation with his good friend Lloyd Hodgson, where he speaks on his journey in skateboarding so far, Scouse roots, starting a family, and more.
What's your day look like these days with the kid?
Well, wake up at 7 o'clock, get woken up by Buster in the morning. Hopefully, try and get a bit of an extended lie-in, a little extra 15 minutes, and then make his breakfast, get him changed, then get myself ready, and leave the house.
So he's like one now. How has it been since having him? Has your life changed much? Is it different from what you thought it'd be? Were you ready for it? Is it something you always knew you were gonna do?
Definitely has been like a nice change. A bit more structure and just waking up in the morning to him laughing at you, basically just laughing the head off. It's just the best way to wake up in the morning, man. But yeah, in terms of lifestyle, it's been a nice, slower pace. Just chill with him in the mornings and then go skate in the day, and then come back to him, make him dinner, and put him to bed. It's lovely.
Did you always think you wanted kids? Because obviously, you have a close relationship with your dad and your brothers. Do you think that had any influence on being so open to having children so young in life?
Yeah, definitely. My brothers and I lost our mum quite early, when I was quite young, I was about 11. And I think ever since then, my brothers and I and my dad have always been really close. I think about what was good in my life growing up, and it was always coming back to my family. So I think I've always been drawn towards having a family of my own from a young age.
You mentioned Lost Art earlier. I was just wondering what it was like to have a skate shop like that in your city. And if that had any effect on kind of your progression in skateboarding.
Yeah, definitely. Anyone who knows Lost Art and David Mackey, who runs it, knows that it's got a really solid community foundation. And it's not just in Liverpool either. It's all over the UK and even in other countries as well. And growing up obviously as a kid, it's nice to be able to see the shop, you see like the older lads from the shop, and then you see the reach that Lost Art had. You would see the broader perspective of what skateboarding is.