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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: writing

  • WHEN CHANGE FEELS SCARY AND SCARY FEELS GOOD

    Forgive me WordPress, readers and bloggers, it is two months since I last posted. I have no excuses, but I do have reasons. First off, I didn’t have anything to post about, but I knew you’d muddle along without me. Given the sporadic nature of my posts, I wouldn’t think you’d probably even notice. But…

  • THE EMBARRASSED CONFESSIONS OF A HIGHLY IMPRACTICAL MAN

    I often wonder when gripped by one of my regular feelings of severe inadequacy whether there are two types of person in this world -those who can do DIY and those who can’t. I’ll take it further; is it possible that there are those who can do ‘stuff’ ,such as build a garden wall, fix…

  • 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…

  • THE SAD BUT IMMORTAL LEGACY OF THE BRONTE’S HOMETOWN

    As this weird period of my year continues in my sisters spare room, waiting as the legal palaver grinds on and on for my new property 130 miles away, I try and find new ways daily to fill the hours. As I have been here in Cumbria since June 27th (94 days if we’re counting)…

  • JANE AUSTEN AND THE THEATRE BY THE LAKE

    Jane Austen was born 250 years ago in Hampshire and is regarded by many as England’s greatest female author. Writing in an age when women were not considered to have credibility in the arts she had to fight a society seeped in misogamy and had written both Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice by…

  • 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…

  • A SHORT BLOG WITH GUITAR GODS AND DOWNWARD DOGS

    Currently my blogging, be it publishing or reading, is struggling as my house move comes closer. But you’ve all been there right? Long periods of little happening and then suddenly everything comes at once and you feel as though you still have mountains of stuff to work through and fitting in any creative pursuit feels…

  • HOW THE HOLY GRAIL GOT SQUEEZED OUT BY THE MOP-HEAD

    I recently came across a blog I published on March 5th, 2014. It was my first blog and one of just three I published under the umbrella of ‘The Loneliness of The Long Distance Scriptwriter’. Within days of publishing the blog I began working for a charity for the next decade and gave up script-writing…

  • 5 INANIMATE OBJECTS I COULDN’T DO WITHOUT

    I am currently sorting through a houseful of ‘stuff’ ahead of a potential move in the next couple of months. De-cluttering is the modern phrase for it. Throwing out crap is what some may prefer to call it. Fortunately I don’t have much crap, but certainly a lot of stuff that should have been thrown…