Another New Year

New Year’s Eve means different things to different people. To many, it’s the perfect excuse to go out and get absolutely, properly, fall-down shit-faced on way too much hooch.  Judging from my own past, I would guess that this option works mainly for youngsters between the ages of eighteen years and their late twenties, mainly [...]

What Goes Around…

Lately I’ve been scaring the crap out of myself with one of my parenting techniques – I’m starting to sound just like my folks did when I was a kid. I guess this happens to every person with children but I really thought I’d be different, that those lame, tired, old clichés that my parents [...]

Christmas Cheer

I want to believe in Father Christmas again. Despite the tinsle-tinged nightmare that is a shopping mall in December, the nauseating Boney-M songs or the incessant Christmas-special adverts which constitute the reality of my festive season, I still remember the innocence of a time when I truly and sincerely believed in The Magic of Christmas.  [...]

What I’ve Learned – Part I

As a typically modest, middle-aged man who believes he has style, wit, fame and fortune, I really enjoy reading Esquire Magazine. One of my favourite features in the magazine (apart from ‘Funny Joke From A Beautiful Woman’) is the ‘What I’ve Learned’ series of articles, where rich, famous and stylish men (and women) provide a [...]

Drinking with Dignity

At 42 years of age, I don’t go out on the town as often as I used to. For one thing, the beer-soaked, smoke-filled dens of iniquity I used to frequent in my twenties and (early) thirties are no longer suitable for someone with a receding brow and more than one mortgage payment to make [...]

Serious About School Sport

As a parent with two young children in Prep School, I’ve spent my fair share of time on the sidelines of the sports field supporting their various sporting endeavours. Firstly, for those of you still sensibly weighing up the implications of having your own children, I can assure you that all kids take their sport [...]

Movember Mojo

So I signed up for Movember. For those that don’t Mo’, this is a worldwide charity initiative whereby men grow moustaches for the month of November and raise funds in aid of cancer, specifically prostate and testicular cancer – the thinking is that we all walk around looking like idiots (at least I do, anyway) [...]

Mid-Life Minivan Vibe

I recently went through a severe, depressing trauma which almost left me scarred for life – faced with two children who refused to stop growing and a wife who insisted I looked ridiculous, I was forced to trade my two-door sports coupe for a minivan. Okay, not the life-threatening ordeal I made it out to [...]

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