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Back in 2001 as a family we tuned into ‘Popstars’…a new concept as far as TV Shows went…as the weeks went on we went from seeing people audition to finally ending up with ‘Hear Say’. The show continued introducing us to the band as they recorded their first single and filmed their first music video [...]

So Jo and myself have got married, been on honeymoon, received all the wedding gifts, received some amazing photos which we’ve put in frames, written thank you cards and received our wedding video (on a complete tangent if you’re getting married avoid Clearview wedding videos in Caister at all costs…worst, most unprofessional video I’ve ever [...]

As followers on Twitter will know we received our wedding photos this week. The best thing about our wedding photographer was that unlike many others who give you a handful of photos and no digital versions we got an entire disc of over 300 edited photos from Bex Photography giving us an amazing choice of [...]

Yesterday as we boarded the ferry to journey back to France after a week’s honeymoon I purchased ‘The Sun’ in order to catch up with the news in a format that my 5 hours-worth-of-driving brain could handle and it wasn’t the ‘coming out’ of X-Factor flop Joe McElderry the caught my eye (although his coming [...]

It feels like ages since I clicked onto this blog to actually post anything (although my blog tells me that in reality it’s only 8 days)…however it’s been a very busy 8 days! In 4 days time (Saturday) Jo and me get married! It barely seems like yesterday that we got engaged in Italy and [...]

This topic of this post has becoming very prominent in my thoughts in the last week and a half and whilst I think my thoughts in this blog would be served better with some specific examples it just isn’t appropriate to post them (if you’ve spoke to me recently or live in South Cave you [...]

On Friday night I had my first Casino experience. For Lucy’s 21st a group of us headed up to the Hull branch of ‘Napoleons’ to celebrate! The only experiences I’ve ever had of gambling come from 2 very different perspectives. The first perspective is that of the tacky gamble…I grew up being taken to holiday [...]

So this evening Gordon Brown resigned after what wasn’t really a very successful time as Prime Minister….it’s not that he was bad at it but I feel like he was dropped in the deep end and didn’t really have the charisma for being a Prime Minister. Cameron is now our Prime Minister…however with compromise…the news [...]

Whether you think the match of Sun readers and Conservative is about as odd as ethnic minorities voting BNP, whether you think Nick Clegg obviously likes Sheffield so much it would be a shame to take him away or whether you think despite the party election broadcast telling us the election is not about voting [...]

Last night I fell asleep watching the final leaders debate on iPlayer…this morning having woke up earlier than I’d wanted I finished off watching the debate and feel that whilst I’ve learned a lot through the debates things aren’t much clearer. There’s been so much stuff to take in with this election stuff it’s difficult [...]

I’ve had the King Blues album ‘Save the world, get the girl’ playing in my car over the last few days and it’s a fantastic album. The last track is about 7 minutes long and is titled ‘What if punk never happened?’…it’s not a musically great song but lyrically it is one of my favourite [...]

I’ve never been particularly enthusiastic about sports. When I was a child I used to play rounders with a local church group, I spent a month or so with cricket lessons before realising I wasn’t manly enough for a wooden ball to come hurtling at me and of course at primary school I spent a [...]

I’ve always been a little wary about posting a blog on politics largely because I find it difficult to engage with politics, I don’t have the patience (or passion) to read through policies and manifestos and whilst I believe that those who have the right to vote should vote I sometimes wonder how much difference [...]

A campaign has sprung up in the last month aiming to get the Delirious? song ‘History Maker’ to number 1 for Easter…the Facebook group (here) has almost 50,000 members (which I’m not sure is enough for a number 1) and is encouraging people to download 1 of 2 versions of the Delirious? song. Alongside this [...]

As I mentioned on Wednesday yesterday I attended a day of lectures being run by Youth, Mission and Culture in Leeds on the subject of Gender. It was great to have the opportunity to spend sometime thinking in depth about a subject without it being linked to a course, essay or just being stuff that [...]