UPDATE – Here’s me on stage at the event (pic courtesy of Bad Language Dan): Last night I stepped on a stage for the first time since playing Joseph in the nativity aged nine and read out (with a little…
A text from her. “I’m listening to Camera Obscura. Can’t stop thinking of you. Is that weird?” My head says: “It’s not weird. You have history with those songs. You’re friends now, that’s all.” My heart does a foxtrot and…
The people have spoken: the fringe is dead. We’re now in an age were the forehead rules. Gone from power are floppy-haired politicians such as Major and Hesletine, now we have smooth-faced men with vast expanses of flesh below…
I’ve collated all three parts of Bamboo and converted into a pdf so can you can read at your leisure. I would supply an epub file but WordPress doesn’t support this yet.
Ennui is one of those words that every time I read it I can never remember what it means. Further reading of the sentence or paragraph doesn’t help me work it out either. Its usage seems to have spread like…
TV quizzes used to be great. The hosts would indiscriminately fire questions at contestants like a Gatling gun with diahorrea. The likes of 15 to 1, Blockbusters and University Challenge knew their audience and pitched questions perfectly and quickly, so…
John Bradshaw’s reign of terror continued past Christmas and into the New Year and without fail, Lloyd continued to ignore any provocation that came his. After a while John moved onto other targets where he would get more of a…
The relentless growing started midway through year seven. The first year had been the worst, when he was unaccustomed to the pain. Lloyd would cry and scream and had endless visits to the local hospital to be poked and prodded…
TROUBLEu 