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.
I was asked by the Guardian last week, on the back of Grayson Perry’s Channel 4 documentary about blokes, to write a short observation of life as a man in 2016. —- I am a man, and I have been for 25 years. By nurture, I am a compassionate person. Unafraid
Read → May 10, 2016
After an eventful fortnight at the Macron Stadium (where my beloved Bolton Wanderers play… keep up!) I made an appearance on this week’s We Are Going Up podcast to talk about new manager Neil Lennon and Bolton’s slide down the football league. Listen to my contribution here… [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/172260216″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”
Read → October 15, 2014
The dentist does funny things to people. Not least 17 year old Cody who, high on pain killers, was completely convinced that he was due to meet Beyonce and the singer had let him down…
Read → October 07, 2014
There’s a strange beauty to being stuck in city traffic on a rainy day. You’re suspended in a moment as the world bustles by. You give in to your inevitable lateness and find a curious tranquility. Your mind is massaged by raindrops, stroking down your window; jostling with each other
Read → October 05, 2014
It doesn’t take much for One Direction fans to scream a stadium roof off… but this was pretty special… Congratulations, Bradley.
Read → October 02, 2014
Yeah, OK… it’s a dog video. But this is good. The Dog thinks the door is closed so won’t come in. Ha! Seriously. Watch this. No… wait… come back… it’s honestly very funny….
Read → October 01, 2014
Nice Taylor Swift did the least she could do and had a little jamming session with a patient during a hospital visit. How very lovely.
Read → September 30, 2014
We all get one. That tiny little window of opportunity. A moment to shine. A heartbeat. Take it, run with it, own it. This man did just that when his Kiss Cam number came up…
Read → September 29, 2014
How often do you open somebody’s blog and see that optimistic first post; promising a regular update on their lives or passions? It’s dated 18 months ago and you can’t help but sympathise with their short -lived gusto. Well, this could very well be mine. An A4 of Honesty will,
Read → September 28, 2014
Lip syncs are spreading like yawns around the internet these days. Politician’s being mocked and cute couples smugly belting out that annoying song from Frozen… then this. A bearded beast of a man recorded a conversation between his Mum and Aunt and lip synced it like the internet hero that
Read → September 25, 2014