Life

Goodbye Fergus

Yesterday I discovered actor and comedian Fergus MacDonald Caird had passed away. He played the father in our short movie ‘Flawless’, which you can watch below. Fergus was an excellent performer, capable of evoking layers of emotion in a single expression. He was a funny guy, just naturally funny, and he cracked me up every […]

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Wandering The Barbican

Finally took the brutalist architecture pilgrimage to the Barbican Estate in London. A wonderfully serene place, a lost dream of what a community could be, what with its high walkways, no cars, its social housing next to fancy apartments, its conservatories, parks and museums. It’s like something from Next Generation but built out of a […]

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Friends. To The End.

‘She understood me and I her’ my mum texted me after her oldest pal passed away recently and that line really hit me. I brace myself for losing old friends because it would be less like losing a limb and more an entire wing of your mental library. All those jokes and memories and references […]

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THIS SATURDAY I ROCK MY HOMETOWN OF SYSTON! It’s a beer and literature festival in a pub!2pm-3pm this Saturday, Pharmacies Arms, Syston. A reading and a Q&A and a couple pints!

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Of Then vs Now

There’s a lot of memes nowadays about the blithe serenity and sanity of the 90s/early 2000s and I get it, totally. The world before the social media demon burst forth was, looking back, a more certain place. A place we wished we’d saved as a checkpoint so we could have a crack at things again […]

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