by admin | Jun 5, 2020 | Film and Television
Warning: This post contains major spoilers for all five seasons of Breaking Bad. Six and a half years ago Breaking Bad ended with a reputation as one of the greatest television shows ever created. Walter White’s metamorphosis into meth kingpin Heisenberg over five...
by admin | May 17, 2020 | Film and Television
Over the weekend I finished season five of Better Call Saul. One season remains of the Breaking Bad prequel that has defied initial apprehension and become one of my favourite shows. The first question people ask is often the same; is it better than Breaking Bad? It...
by admin | Mar 28, 2020 | Reading, Writing
Corona virus, lockdown, another blog post. Wherever you look there are terrible times occurring. It’s crazy, right? As I type this blog I’m shocked at how quickly things have changed. Two weeks ago I sat alone, headphones in, creatively writing in my free...
by admin | Mar 17, 2020 | Film and Television
In times of crisis, there’s not much expertise I can offer. As we work through unprecedented times with the COVID-19 virus, my advice is to listen to the expert’s medical advice and use the government’s website as your primary source of information. What I can offer...
by admin | Feb 29, 2020 | General Updates, Writing
It’s been a little while since I’ve done an update on writing, my book or anything creative. I figured I’d use February’s blog to do just that. The Murder of a Superhero In August of last year, I shared my book with a handful of people. I’ve collated feedback...
by admin | Jan 22, 2020 | General Updates
Here I am sitting in a coffee shop in Leeds, my laptop and a cappuccino before me. I’ve lived in Leeds over three years and I often come out to coffee shops to write, have breakfast, and socialise. The aim of this post is for it to be a straightforward guide to...
by admin | Dec 31, 2019 | General Updates
At the start of 2019 I started blogging. The aim was simple, fifty-two blogs in fifty-two weeks. I managed twelve. In hindsight, I may have slightly underestimated what a commitment a weekly blog would be, but that’s okay. There’s a quote from Les Brown that you...
by admin | Oct 29, 2019 | General Updates
If you Google the phrase “the reality of being a tenant” the first result is an article asking “Is Becoming a Landlord More Trouble Than It Is Worth?” while the third is titled “Reasons Why I Hate My Tenant”. If ever there was a good start for this blog it would be...
by admin | Sep 13, 2019 | Reading, Writing
This week I finished the Pultzier prize winning Maus. It’s a graphic novel where the author Spiegelman interviews his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work utilises postmodernist techniques and presents Jews as mice with the...
by admin | Jul 20, 2019 | General Updates, Writing
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama This post is going to be about change, uncertainty and aim to give you all a bit of a life...
