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

This year I attended the 19th Christmas Eve Dartford Pub Crawl. These events take place all around the country, in cities, towns and villages. Ours started around a pub table in 1998, as my friends and I prepared to sit our A-Levels all of those many moons ago. What started as youthful vim and an excuse to over-egg the Christmas spirit, has now become a fixture in many of our annual calendars. Why hasn’t it died out? Many of my friends, like me, have wives, girlfriends and ch

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