This is the year we’ll remember for a Tiger becoming a Cheetah, pigs really did fly (swine flu, boom boom), America achieved what the world thought impossible and voted a black man in to the white house, Jackson, Swayze and Gately all went to the Roller Disco in the sky and Irish twins were more annoying than radioactive crabs.

But what actually happened to me through 2009? Anyone close to me may have felt like they were being drawn in to an Eastenders story line vortex, but thanks to family, old friends and a few new ones I’m finishing the year on a high. So while I’m feeling more positive than Mark Fowlers tests results here is my year by numbers, going 10 to 1 pop pickers…

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Originally written for the skinny online magazine

http://www.theskinny.co.uk/blog/9-the-dullest-blog/335-the-dullest-blog-comedy-ramblings-to-inpire-the-most-tedious-moment-of-your-week

Let me start by pointing out that I’m 31, single and have no kids, so when asked to write about “Family”, a broad grin spread across my face when I reminded myself that I don’t have one of my own.

Don’t get me wrong, there is a part of me that would love to settle down, have the house, the wife, the kids and the big dog (none of your yapping handbag accessory dogs, a proper dog that barks and eats postmen that rarely turn up).

But there are two main reasons I’m happy I don’t have the family unit (yet).

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