My Brainiversary
While I was lying on a hospital trolley, my girlfriend of six months, Sarah, told me that her divorce had just been completed. Within...
How my brain haemorrhage and my wife's breast cancer improved our lives.
I often say that suffering a brain haemorrhage was the best thing ever to have happened to me. I doubt that too many people can say that....
The Big Click
I started writing my book, I’m Never Ill, in November 2012. It was just meant to be a short read for brain injury sufferers to help ease...
Bob Marley's 70th birthday
Today would have been Bob Marley's 70th birthday. When we went to Jamaica on our honeymoon, we visited his house. I told someone recently...
Our successful diet
From the 5th January Sarah and I embarked on a health and weight loss diet. It wasn’t a New Year’s resolution. Sarah has always said she...
7 Random Things
I was roped into one of those Facebook nominations to tell 7 random things about myself. So here goes: 1. I was conceived in the 50s but...
Cancer likes sugar
Cancer likes sugar and cancer likes obesity. If you wean yourself off sugar in tea and coffee (15 calories per LEVEL teaspoon - who ever...
Colonic irrigation at the Celtic Manor
When I was a driving instructor I was being driven towards a busy roundabout by an 18-year-old female. In Newport we know it as The...
Cure for insomnia?
In my work as a driving examiner, I am given opportunities to work at many different test centres. Driving test waiting lists fluctuate...
Misfortune or fortune?
With each and every unfortunate mishap, none of us can ever know what dreadful catastrophe the alternative may have been