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When I’m not chatting away on the radio, I’m usually hunched over a laptop, hammering away at the keys.
Here you will find some of my latest scribblings for the guardian, Grazia, The Times and The Lancashire Evening Post up north.
Occasionally, I’ll write something exclusive to this website, so be sure to keep checking back in.
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Column: The Phone
It is Thursday and the world is crumbling around me Up to now, the day had passed with relative ease. I had taken the tram to a meeting. I had read about the impending destruction of the human race in a free newspaper I found on the seat beside me.
Read → May 08, 2019Read
Column: I’ve seen the worst of humanity… and it takes the 11.25 to London.
I am on a train and the whole carriage is angry with Gavin. Gavin is the man on the seat opposite. We all know he’s called Gavin because he announced it down the phone, earlier in the journey. “Hello everybody,” he bellowed, “it’s Gavin here. Coming in to land on
Read → April 02, 2019Read
Column: The Potato Disaster
I am cooking dinner and there has been a potato disaster.
Read → March 05, 2019Read
Column: Generation Bore
This column first appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post. This column has become hard to write. Not because world events have become stale. Quite the opposite, clearly. And not because I’ve been busy moving house and have been without WIFI for the last fortnight. That has been a predictably
Read → December 31, 2018Read
Column: The Cure for Grumpiness
This column first appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post. I have decided I need to be less grumpy. It isn’t so much that I am a bad person. My social skillset is reasonability well developed and I would say that I am on the more pleasant end of the spectrum.
Read → December 03, 2018Read
How ADHD Saved Me
I shouldn’t be able to write this article. I was told so growing up. I faced an unrelenting barrage of reasons why I couldn’t do things. “You want to write? You’ll struggle holding a basic job down, lad, never mind write” “One day, Darryl will realise that talking and acting
Read → October 31, 2018Read
Column: The New House
It is Thursday and I am going through the finer details of my recent house purchase. My girlfriend and I have made the ultimate show of love and commitment and agreed to own some bricks together. No more renting. No more get-out clauses. I have learned to live with her
Read → October 22, 2018Read
Column: The New Job
This column first appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post… It is Friday and I am having my hair cut. Friday is my day off. Or, it was. Now Monday is my day off too. And Thursday. And Tuesday. And all the other days in-between. A recent departure from my evening
Read → July 23, 2018Read
Column: The Party
This column first appeared in the Lancashire Evening Post. I am at a party and I don’t know anyone. It’s my friend Tom’s 40th and after the shattering grief of realising I have friends turning 40, I calm myself enough to attend his soirée. We arrive at the fashionably late
Read → May 20, 2018