The Bag for Life 

Well-known blond, Irish warbler Ronan Keating famously sang in his big pop tune of May 2000 that life is indeed a roller coaster, and you...

Now I do not know about you, my dear reader chum, but I am finding that as I get older, it is the small things in life that cause the...

In my adolescent years, I had a mate of mine called Eamonn Martin. One of the things that we used to do was make up our own version of...

I was talking to a friend of mine today, and he asked me how I was. I had not seen him since before Christmas, so when he asked me, I...

The Bard himself famously said that life is but a stage, and we are all but players on the stage. Well, the older that I get, the more...

Well, as I meander closer to my 99th dose of chemo the week after next and then the big one on December 20th, where I hit the big...

I used to enjoy playing Bingo once upon a time in this strange and wonderful world that I have lived in for 63 years. It was a different...

Over the course of my 4 years and 6 months of living with cancer, a lot of kind people have said to me: “So, if you don't mind me asking,...

One of the benefits of being a rather sad, old, English gentleman like myself, is the fact that even though technology allows us to have...

When I first started writing these blogs back in late 2018, I had absolutely what was going to happen, or indeed what I was going to...

When I was a young punk, living in Birmingham in 1977, I would regularly go to gigs in the city centre. Watching the likes of The Clash...

Following on from the first part of my journey exploring what the side effects of chemotherapy are and what they are actually like. I...

Well, my dear chums, here we are and today was my first day back at chemo, having missed my last one and a half chemo sessions, which is...

It was good while it lasted, I have to say, but it did not last long. My wonderful oncologist, Doctor Peter, had agreed to give me a...

So, here I am, my dear friends. It is 02.45 on Thursday July 22. The daily temperatures have been record-breaking for 5 days solid and...

At the beginning of February 2021, I found out that my level 4a bowel cancer had returned for a third time. This was a tough blow, but as...

2 weeks ago I was diagnosed with bowel cancer for the third time. This week, I started back on the chemotherapy and medication regime.

I finished my last course of chemotherapy 3 months ago and last week I had a CT scan. Next week I will find out if the bowel cancer has...

So, here I am again. It is 2AM in the early morning of Thursday, 22nd October 2020. I am just tying to decide, do I watch the MSL...

Hello my dear chums, You might be justifiably baffled at the rather strange nod of the head to the classic teenage comedy series, the...