Stuck.
One thing that the pandemic has taught us all to collectively identify with is the notion of being stuck. Whether it is stuck sat in front of a screen on perpetual Zoom meetings, stuck spending a lot more time with your household that you ever intended to or being stuck for choice when it comes…
Bratislava Palaver
I’ve never been a huge fan of horror films. It all stems from when I saw a pirated copy of the film Piranha through the crack of the living room door as a six year old. As a direct result of my illicit viewing, I wouldn’t go swimming for a year and made my sister…
The Thin Poo Line
As with any young male, one of the most enjoyable of all the rites of passage that besiege the path to adulthood before the concept of Council Tax and Stamp Duty takes over is that first “Lads Holiday”. A fortnight of inaugural hedonism that grows from a seed planted over a Friday night beer in…
Let me be Frank – I was There!
The one thing that unites us is the belief that we all grew up in an era when music or comedy was the best. You are all wrong – I was. I have been extremely fortunate to see some truly amazing artists perform over the years and am lucky to be able to say “I…
“Ooo, Heaven is a Plate of Chips”
If ever there was an idiom that I most identified with it is to “just go with your gut”. Which is exactly why this story starts with me in the queue at my local chippy on a Sunday evening, still nursing a hangover and in desperate search of carbohydrates. However, that wasn’t the only time…
The Room-mate From Hull
The transition from Secondary school to University can be a traumatic experience. Especially when all your applications have been rejected and you are scouring the ‘Clearing’ pages of Ceefax daily, frantically trying to find somewhere/anywhere desperate to make up their numbers. I did have an unconditional acceptance letter from the University of Exeter, but it…
The Tale of The Loose Canary
Every pub-dwelling male drinker worth his salt has a ‘go to’ story. It is the story that is pulled out when the alcohol consumption of the collective is at its most euphoric; the cornerstone anecdote to any lager-swilling raconteur’s portfolio. It has been retold so many times that each embellishment of the story-line blurs the…
Panic! At the Disco
To say I have been unlucky with the fairer sex is a gross understatement. My first proper girlfriend had me sussed right from the wordgo. “You remind me of the Irish actor off the telly.” Who could she mean after only knowing me for one date? That immediately set my mind racing. I started listing…
A Geek Tragedy 