Reality Bites
I stumbled upon this article a few days ago which revealed that reality TV ‘star’ Joey Essex is reportedly making more money than the Prime Minister of Britain. While I’m no fan of Cameron, it’s hard to imagine how a television personality, famous for his lack of intelligence, can be hawked around the various TV […]
Throwing Shapes and Losing Mates at Glastonbury Festival
Around this time of year as the sun teases from behind a blanket of clouds, my thoughts always turn to Summer festival season. I’ve been fortunate to have been to some interesting gigs in the past – Oasis in Belfast (Liam spitting on the crowd), Eric Clapton at Slane Castle (electrical fault halfway through his […]
10 Lessons I Learnt From Starting My Own Business
Quitting a cushy well paid job at American Tech giant Oracle to start a new venture in an industry I had no knowledge of might, to most people, be considered risky if not a little bonkers. And you’d be dead right. I wasn’t entirely alone on this mission to build a business empire in the Summer of […]
Puke Free Since ’03 – An ode to my Kevin Costner
Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Or so the saying goes. Although I tried my absolute best to batter my liver with wild concoctions of booze in my late teens. My jaunts around the world at various times in the past decade have exposed me to cultures that are at odds to my own […]
Swimming with Sharks
IF I HAD created a bucket list in my teens, swimming with sharks would have been near the top. Probably somewhere wedged between scoring the winning goal for Blackburn Rovers and meeting my childhood crush Gillian Anderson aka Dana Scully. The decade of my twenties brought with it a little less daring, and a little more caring. Especially when […]