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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

5 INANIMATE OBJECTS I COULDN’T DO WITHOUT

February 18, 2025

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…
LOWER ATTENTION SPAN AND THE CONTINUING RISE OF BRAIN-ROT

January 14, 2025

I read somewhere recently that said attention span on social media is now down to a shocking 47 seconds per article or post. Ten years ago is was around two and a half minutes. And apparently, the average time spent reading blogs is 16 seconds. Which suggests that most people have given up on this…
FROM FORGOTTEN BLOG POST TO THE THEATRE STAGE

November 28, 2024

On December 14th 2020 I posted a blog – only my seventh blog at the time – ruminating that Jesus seems to have less and less exposure at Christmas. It was in large part inspired by a bulletin I wrote for a charity one mid-summer informing all their shops that Christmas cards were being distributed…
THE DAILY DULLNESS AND DELIGHTS OF A DAY BY DAY DIARY

December 29, 2023

With more excitement than is probably necessary, I have just placed an order for my 2024 Day by Day Diary. It will be arriving with great ceremony, tomorrow. Or more likely I’ll get a text telling me it’s been un-ceremonially left in the garage. Normally I prefer to choose my diary by buying it from…
6 THINGS THAT ANNOY ME ABOUT MYSELF

November 10, 2023

We all have aspects of ourselves that irritate, habits that we can’t break or approaches to things that annoy. And I’m not talking about irritating or annoying other people, but our own self. And yet these continue on, week after week, year on year. These may not necessarily be huge character flaws like kicking cats…
HELLO YELLOW BRICK ROAD, GOODBYE FEAR AND PANIC

October 6, 2023

On Wednesday of this week, October 4th, the rail workers in the UK decided to have a ‘day of action’, an ironic term of phrase for a national strike. Pretty much all the trains in the country didn’t run at all. This post isn’t about the strike, although I do broadly support their issues to…
BETTER TO EXPECT LESS FOR THE JOY OF RECEIVING MORE

July 23, 2023
THE SHOW DOESN’T GO ON AS WRITERS STRIKE BACK

June 5, 2023
MY 6 WRITING DISTRACTIONS LYING IN WAIT

May 23, 2022

I’m currently lucky enough to be connected to a major theatre in Liverpool that is showing faith in me as a writer, and investing time and money to develop any potential I may have. And I’m about to start work on completing the first draft and on subsequent re-writes of a full-length play, based on…
A BLOGGING BREAK FOR ALL THE WRITE REASONS

April 6, 2022

Ever needed to put blogging on the back seat when other commitments come around? Although that’s the case for me at the moment, thankfully the reasons are positive ones.

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