I made some unconventional choices early in life and discovered my happy place — It was around the age of sixteen that I rediscovered the gift of self-motivation. It had been severely lacking through my teen years and I felt lost and without any direction in life. I had got into smoking which had trashed my flute-playing path, since my flute teacher refused to…

The dumbest thing I have ever gotten into trouble over — I am a shoplifter. A thief. A low-down piece of scum. Those were the thoughts that swirled around in my head that day I was hauled into the manager’s office of the Asda Superstore in Southgate, North London, back in 1994. I was made to sit down in the chair…

No matter how good your writing is, it can still be an instant turn off — If you are new to blogging and online non-fiction story-writing, you may be making fatal mistakes with your writing. Whether you are writing for the first time or a highly experienced offline writer, everyone can find themselves facing the same challenge: That no one is reading or engaging with your…

What some may know, others may wish to know, and yet others don’t give two hoots. — Hey! Great to have you stop by ;) Pull up a virtual seat and I will put on the virtual kettle for a cuppa. I may or may not have yet read about you, but I guess this is where you get to find out all about me, so here…

Everybody wants to rule the r̶o̶o̶f̶ world — It was just an ordinary summer day. I set off from home at 9 am, as the day was already heating up. That’s not especially ordinary for England but it is August. Otherwise, everything looked very ordinary. My house looked just as it has every day this year; nothing was…

Dancing Elephants Press Book Project: Exercise — The one and only time I have ever been into a gym was when I went for my free gym tour at my university when I was nineteen. That was twenty-eight years ago. I never joined it and I have never joined any other in my entire life. What exactly…

HELLLPPP! — Help me, someone. Something has happened. The holidays arrived and my brain has become slow and confused. Structure has flown far into the distance. Kids are asking willy-nilly for lifts and trips to the swimming pool or the park. Relatives are arriving for their holidays and expecting me to drop…

Ugh can these get any worse? — Whoop whoop 🙌🙌 Badform peeps, we are now onto the fourth prompt in our short life on the Mediumsphere. The real challenge is keeping them truly bad! Let’s take a little look at the prompts so far… We began with The Bad Smell and boy, was that a popular one. …

Dancing Elephants Press Book Project Motivation — One of the best things about going on vacation is that it puts you into a wonderfully relaxed state. One of the worst things about going on vacation is that it puts you into a wonderfully relaxed state…and finding some get-up-and-go when you have let all the busy-ness slide can…