Back in the day

Lent has started and this reminded me of a life-changing moment that happened to 8-year-old me. No, although me mam did make me do that. This was much worse. I was minding my own business in school, staring out of

Remember this: Well I was watching a couple of episodes from 1966, the year I was born, and the first thing I’ve got to complain about is – where the ‘eck is this? And, also, where are those paper undies,

I was walking with Norman this week and saw this: An old fridge had been dumped into a pond. You could call it a pond, or you could call it a dark and lonely water. I had a uneasy, deja-vue

15 July 22 – Town Characters Hi Everyone, In the town where I grew up there were a lot of unusual characters, like this one. The man who tipped Lucozade down drains. This was in the days when Lucozade could only

20 May 22 – The First 10 Years Hi Everyone, I thought I’d go a bit psychoanalytical this week.Yes. I think the first 10 years of your life really do influence the way you turn out and I have examples

29 April 22 – Mysterious Pet Shop Hi Everyone, When I was five, we had a Mysterious Pet Shop at the end of our street.The first pet I remember from there was a kitten that came to ours, widdled in

8 April 22 – Stag Night Hi Everyone, This week I’d like to tell you about my stag night back in 1992 I must warn you there’s violence, injury detail and nudity. But (no pun intended) before you get excited,

18 March 22 – Getting Battered by Kids Hi Everyone, Not sure about you, but getting battered by big kids in the 1970s was just one of life’s little irritations. You may say, well that sketch isn’t to scale, look

I’ve made an attempt at an uplifting story from back in the day. Here’s 12 year old me with a song that (just realised) hadn’t been written then.And it’s about football not boxing anyway. It’s a bad start to this

Cricket When I was younger I played cricket and I was the most boring batsman in the history of boredom No, I wasn’t that kind of boring. Ignore him, I meant this kind of boring. I was king of the

18 Feb 22 – PE Teacher Hi Everyone, I don’t know about you, but when I was at school PE Teachers looked like this Ours was called Mr Clyde and wasn’t a fan of O rhesus positive so I survived.

Many years ago, when I lived in America, I worked in a nuclear plant in the desert and met a guy called Jimmy. To imagine Jimmy, think of Lemmy with a hard hat. That looks nothing like Lemmy or Jimmy but

12 Nov 21 – Second Fight Hi Everyone, Don’t know if you read last week’s email where had my first fight in the playground and used far too many Rocky references Sorry, did it again, that’s the last one, promise.

5 Nov 21 – First Fight Hi Everyone, I’ve had two fights in my life, I was claimed to be the victor in both, and never swung a single punch that connected. I wasn’t an heroic Rocky-type figure tiring out

The Waterpark In the days when people wore speedos proudly and my gut didn’t do this when I sat down Something bad happened. By the way, I don’t normally sit with my arms like that, because that would be strange.

4 June 21 – Public Information Films Hi Everyone, Hope you’re having another great week This week I accidentally made a discovery. I was talking about the Smash advert with a few friends at the weekend. Yes, that’s the level of our

12 Feb 21 – Back in the day Hi Everyone, Another week ticked off. And another week down memory lane for me. I’ve been digging into my cartoon archives again and came across this The good old days of underage