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It is almost a year since I was diagnosed with liver cancer (Cholangiocarcinoma, to give it its proper medical name). After an operation to remove the tumour, and with it about 66% of my liver, my family and I were…
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This blog is partly to dispel a myth that has developed over the last four months and partly to recognise and give credit to an army of people who played parts in helping get through the first two battles with…
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I was having a casual conversation with my youngest daughter who will graduate from university next summer. Gradually, the chat moved from the casual to the deep as we began contrasting life pressures on her Millennial Generation compared to my…
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Somewhere between the age of 25 and 45, when we are at the peak of our involvement in career matters and competing for the next position up the greasy pole of corporate life, we go through phases of longing for…
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I recently traveled from London to Larnaca with British Airways on a flight scheduled for 11:40. Earlier that morning, I unnecessarily woke up around 3:30; more than 8 hours before take off. Unable to return to sleep, I finally sat…
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Going to the gym for Emma Spencer was a treat as a reward for all the “stuff” she had to deal with day in, day out. Although you wouldn’t think it was such a treat when you see her struggling…
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I wrote this story in the Autumn of 2006 as a Christmas gift to my wife Claire and three daughters Leila, Rosy and Faye. It was to remind the girls of their innocent and carefree childhood days when we invented…
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You might say it was the perfect British Summer’s Day on the banks of River Usk in Newport. A perfection spoilt, from her perspective, by the fact that nearly everyone in town felt the same way as she did and…
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Walter Patch is a genius but no one knows it, least of all, Walter himself. Walter is always thinking of new ideas and inventions but he ignores them for a while until eventually someone else comes along and thinks of…
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It was a Friday and Riesling took her bacon butty and Turkish Delight lunch pack and walked to the river front. Her usual bench was free and she could easily have sat there and got on with her lunch as…
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