The Bag for Life 

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...

There is a classic line in literature that says: it was the best of times and it was the worst of times. Yes, you get points if you know...

I've had a stoma since September 2018, when I was unexpectedly diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer and had to undergo emergency surgery....

Before I was diagnosed with level 4a bowel cancer in September 2018, it would be fair to say that if truth be told, I was not a huge fan...

Hello my dear chums, I recently wrote my top ten good and bad review of 2020. It was a challenging and enjoyable task in equal measure....

Hello, my dear chums! Well, here we are on the brink of a brand new year, after one of the most challenging and disturbing years in...

It is, quite frankly, quite difficult when I take a step back and try and reflect on all the events that have occurred in this awful and...

So, it is three weeks to the day since I got the “golden ticket” phone call from my oncologist to tell me that the CT scan I had had...

Well, my dear chums, it is 02.00 in the early hours of Tuesday, 10th November 2020. As usual, my insomnia has come to visit me once again...

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...

So, today my dear chums, after a long absence for which I ask your forgiveness, I feel ready to blog again after my most recent adventure...

Older persons reading this might recognise the lyrics of a well known pop ditty that was famous back in the eighties. It was one of those...

Catchy little title, I thought... possibly the name of my next album, assuming, of course, I had an original album in the first place,...

This is the full video of the talk I gave on the 20th February 2020, telling my story with bowel cancer since 2018, living with a stoma,...

Ahead of the full presentation that I gave at the University College Birmingham, EV Productions have compiled this cheeky little taster...