Well 2018 has started not with a bang, but more with a beautiful, sedate haze of happiness and opportunity. In fact, I don't much go in for New Year celebrations. I didn't this year either as 2017 was fab and really I just wanted to continue that positivity into 2018. Luckily it seems to be doing so. As I get older, I task myself with learning more about how the world works, how systems of control remain in place for instance. There are many myths that we grow up with. Most o

Tnaesha Twohig. This is difficult as Tnaesha is my wife, so after writing this I will go home and have to see her. Cringe for me and cringe for her possibly, but in the words of Kanye West, ‘people never get the flowers while they can still smell them.’ When I met Tnaesha, she was a very different person to who she is now. She worked in a school as a T.A. and was respected for what she did but seemed largely overlooked. A friend and colleague in her department, valued what sh

Mum. The reason for this is that my mum not only incredibly morally irreproachable and upstanding, she has also been through so much in life, yet still shrugs it off and carries on. My mum was in a very serious car accident when she lived in Southern Africa as a young lady. If she had been wearing her seatbelt, she may well have died as the car rolled and luckily she was able to get out. Due to this, I am reticent about wearing a seatbelt. Lots of people may believe I try not

Life has a funny way of throwing quite peculiar curve balls at you. Just when you think everything is coming together well, there will often be a fly in the ointment or a nagging issue that just won’t go away. This weekend, we planned for a quiet reflective one and it has ended up being extremely busy and expensive, not to mention fun too. That said, I woke up on Sunday morning to a random observer, ‘David,’ who decided to attack my writing and tell me of a number of grammati

When you look back at your life, sometimes all you can see is the mistakes, what you could have done better, the people you wished you hadn't hurt. That's the nature of the human brain, it errs towards negativity; a problem solving device, that by nature, has to focus on the problems. It was interesting creating this new website. I had to complete a bit about me, which in the words of my seven year old daughter, is a bit awkward. One thing that stood out to me was my Head of