The Bag for Life 

So it came to pass that on Saturday 3rd May 2025, I finally grew up… I think? Why? Because I reached the grand old age of 65. It’s a bit...

Well-known blond, Irish warbler Ronan Keating famously sang in his big pop tune of May 2000 that life is indeed a roller coaster, and you...

I very nearly died in the early hours of Tuesday 20th August 2024. I got sepsis; it was swift, frightening, aggressive, relentless,...

I had the good fortune recently to visit the orthopaedic hospital in Birmingham, having been on a waiting list for 43 weeks, and now at...

Now I do not know about you, my dear reader chum, but I am finding that as I get older, it is the small things in life that cause the...

A press release about my journey with cancer has recently been published by the South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust. You...

In my adolescent years, I had a mate of mine called Eamonn Martin. One of the things that we used to do was make up our own version of...

I was talking to a friend of mine today, and he asked me how I was. I had not seen him since before Christmas, so when he asked me, I...

The Bard himself famously said that life is but a stage, and we are all but players on the stage. Well, the older that I get, the more...

Well, as I meander closer to my 99th dose of chemo the week after next and then the big one on December 20th, where I hit the big...

As my good friend Noah, the nurse, delicately uttered the magic words "slight scratch," he seamlessly inserted the needle into the vein,...

I used to enjoy playing Bingo once upon a time in this strange and wonderful world that I have lived in for 63 years. It was a different...

Over the course of my 4 years and 6 months of living with cancer, a lot of kind people have said to me: “So, if you don't mind me asking,...

And so it came to pass, my dear chums, that yesterday I had my 82nd dose of chemotherapy and what a strange case it was. Basically, 4...

One of the benefits of being a rather sad, old, English gentleman like myself, is the fact that even though technology allows us to have...

Forrest Gump famously said “Life is like a box of chocolates.” Now, I honestly have absolutely no idea what that means, but I always...

Now, I do not know about you my dear chum, but I never thought that I would experience a heart attack as part of my life and times. Maybe...

When I first started writing these blogs back in late 2018, I had absolutely what was going to happen, or indeed what I was going to...

When I was a young punk, living in Birmingham in 1977, I would regularly go to gigs in the city centre. Watching the likes of The Clash...

So, today my dear chums was on reflection a landmark day, I do not know if achieving 70 doses of chemo is a lot, or a little, and if...