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I’ve written bits and pieces on BBC Radio 2, 4 and 5 comedy shows, worked in the script team for two series of Channel 4’s comedy-drama ‘Shameless’ and am currently working with The Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool as part of their script development programme. I am also a songwriter with songs on all major platforms.

Category: Gratitude

  • HOW THE BURDEN OF SORTING MEMORIES BECAME A VIDEO TRIBUTE

    In the last few months I have had the unenviable task of working through a huge pile of old family photographs and items that needed to be either kept or thrown away. Anyone who has ever been in this position knows how the responsibility can weigh heavily. This can be extra difficult when you are…

  • HOW NOT TO FEEL OLD IN A MUSIC WORLD DICTATED BY THE YOUNG

    Yesterday at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall in Hope Street, Liverpool, between the city’s two iconic Anglican and Catholic cathedrals, I attended the Music Career Industry Festival. The festival, being organised and run by Sentric Music, a music publisher founded and based in Liverpool but also with an office in London, is mainly for people planning…

  • A LITTLE WINDOW INTO A BRAND NEW CHRISTMAS

    Having just moved into my new home just over seven weeks ago and still tripping over boxes – though a lot less than there were – and putting up curtain rails and applying paint (badly) onto walls and making room for new and old furniture, the space available for Christmas decorations is at present somewhat…

  • SHEDDING OFF THE RURAL LIFE FOR THE HOMETOWN RETURN

    On the 31st October, I returned to my hometown after spending the previous four months – eighteen weeks in all, or 126 days if you prefer – living from my sisters spare room in northern Cumbria. This was not planned, or at least not for that long. I expected to be away for a couple…

  • FROM THIS SMALL ROOM TO A THRILLING,WAITING WORLD

    This coming Friday I will be moving out of the house that I have lived in since I was eight years old. The biggest part of my lifetime has been spent within these walls and I am the only one of my family still living here. It feels like the right time; I of course…

  • TRYING HARD TO RECOGNISE THE AMERICA OF MY DREAMS

    My grandfather Gordon Ariss from Birmingham UK, boarded the ship HMT Rohna on the 25th November 1943, along with 1,981 American soldiers. The next day the ship was attacked by a wave of German aircraft. They appeared to have weathered the attack until they were hit by a recently devised radio controlled bomb. It proved…

  • JOANNE THE CARER WALKING THE STREETS TO HELP THOSE IN NEED

    There is a lady who walks the streets of my local area called Joanne. Joanne is a carer who works for a nearby caring agency and I first became aware of her when she used to call to my house to visit my father when I was juggling caring for him and working full-time. Joanne…

  • HOW NOT TO CRUMBLE IN THE FACE OF DELIBERATE KINDNESS

    Have you ever received a kindness from someone that quite frankly you could do without? The kind of lovely act that makes you want to ask them if they had lost their mind? A few days ago I gave a neighbour a large bag of baking apples from my tree, which she was delighted about.…

  • FRIENDSHIPS THAT MAY NOT REMAIN BUT LEAVE A LASTING EFFECT

    I recently read a quote that said; and I’m paraphrasing a little here, that it’s not just about the big people in your life that have made your life whole, like your parents and siblings and other close relations, but the people who have occupied your life at some stage to a significant degree, only…

  • BETTER TO EXPECT LESS FOR THE JOY OF RECEIVING MORE