Tag: cancer

Afraid

This week I was on the Jonathan Miles Show on BBC Newcastle, chatting with Jonathan and the lovely Jerry of Echo 23 about the week’s news.
Before we got on to talking about big families, asexuality, proposal planners, and how rude David Cameron is, we were both asked what we were afraid of.
Jerry’s impressively terrifying answer [...]

Before it’s too late

The UK news has been full of death this weekend. The events in Norway, where more than 100 people have been grabbed out of their lives, are shocking and obscene. Chaotic, addicted Amy Winehouse’s death may seem less surprising, but for the people who loved her will be just as much of a shock.
We never [...]

Taxi!

I always have lovely chats with cabbies. Well, I always have chats with cabbies. There’s the odd dud (mostly conversations that include any, or if you’re really unlucky, all, of the phrases ‘coming over here, taking our jobs’ and ‘I said to the missus’ and ‘I know you’re not supposed to say this but’) but, [...]