This week I had a serious health scare, my lungs got infected with a virus and my breathing became more and more laboured and last Monday I coughed so hard I tore some rib cartilage. Each cough then became an exercise in torture like someone was jamming a screwdriver in the middle of my back [...]

Recently I’ve been thinking about changing my name. Not completely and not to avoid any criminal charges, but because I feel a growing need to do right by one of grandparents that I feel was jipped by nature, and neglected by parents when it came to his grandchildren.

Grandad B – I’ll call him here [...]

This December I’ll be going home for the first time in 10 years. It’s hard to imagine that it has been that long since I was in my own country; I have these memories of the place, but they seem in a lot of ways like they are from a travel trip, not from somewhere [...]

So I’ve started to wonder whether or not we’re all moving towards becoming a world of politically correct intolerant humourless gits! It seems these days you can’t actually speak your mind without someone getting offended and taking it personally. It has become a ridiculous situation that really has no logical end point. I remember growing up [...]

I was reading an article the other day about self quantifiers, who are a select group of people that record essential data about themselves from the time they wake up to the time they go to bed, and for some extreme individuals, also when they sleep. All the data that is amassed [...]