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2017 started with a shock. My son, Harry, was born with Moebius syndrome – a rare neurological disorder characterised by weakness or paralysis of multiple cranial nerves. It has no known cause and was totally unexpected. No signs. No warning. Utter disbelief at the moment my wife and I were given the news. We thought […]
I’m appawlled by errors. My life is a constant battle between wanting to correct spelling/grammar and wanting to have friends. If your an officer for the grammar police or merely a grammer enthusiast – and if reading this is causing you real emotional and physical unrest, like Chuck McGill near a refrigerator* – then I feel your […]
Remember when you were young and loved writing your thesis because each page was the start of something new, filled with opportunities? Me neither. Writing a thesis is ugly. All those hours. The eye strain. Countless sleepless nights. And that was just Call of Duty and Halo on the Xbox 360; the tactical task avoidance. No, […]
‘Am I bonkers’ I asked myself, watching Pablo Escobar escape the clutches of the Columbian police* – yet again. ‘Not as crazy as Hermilda. She’s one heck of a fruit loop’ I replied. ‘You’re one to talk’ I said. ‘You’re talking to yourself again’. And in that moment I realised I was mad. Mad enough […]