The Bag for Life 

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...

I do not know why, but for some strange reason, Lewis Carols “Alice In Wonderland” has been playing on my mind rather a lot recently. Not...

I have always found Easter a rather odd time of the year. As a child, of course, it was wrapped around attending church, mass, the...

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,...

Well, there is a question, is it not? Easy answer is, of course, that a volcano is obviously a natural phenomenon of a fissure that links...

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

And so I quote the immortal words of the mighty Ronan Keating, in one of his finest pop ditties; except there is, of course, a subtle...

I recall, as a young child, being quite intrigued by the story of Sampson and Delilah; the idea of some superhero with long hair that...

When I was originally diagnosed with Level 4a bowel cancer in September 2018, it was a complete surprise. Mostly, because the original...

I have to say that as a stoma bag user on a daily basis... Mind you, it’s not like you can take a day off, or just go back to the good...