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One of the strange side effects of living with a life taking disease like cancer is that it does without doubt change your perspective on many things. Now in all fairness you can take one of two paths come this test, you can choose to embrace the challenge or you can...
I think it is only human to want to feel as though we belong to something, it might be country, a religion, a sect, a football team, (to some the last three are in fact the same). It is almost a primeval part of that awkwardness that we all feel when we walk into an...
To recall the classic pop dittie from the hero that is Ronan Keeting, one time frontman of manufactured boy band Boyzone, yes the five piece were assembled Lego style by Louise Walsh, long term judge on Simon Cowell’s X Factor,( whatever happened to that I ask...
I have been a very fortunate old Hector, in many ways ( For those of you old enough to remember Hectors House children’s TV show back in the seventies). In that my strange and wonderful career has allowed me to do so many varied and divers things. Of all the many...
When I started off the process of training to be a stand up comedian to raise money for cancer research UK, I had not really given much thought to what it is that actually has to be done to make people laugh. And by people, what I am talking about is a group of...
I have always been, if the truth be told a bit of a cynical old Hector, as the classic seventies kids show used to proclaim. Now I do not know about you my dear reader chum but I have to confess that I have never been as far as I am aware someone who has ever...
So, I cant believe it from nowhere the rugby World Cup is upon us from the land of Cherry Blossoms and unfettered courtesy and impeccable good manners. I talk of course of the land of the rising sun, Japan. Domo Arigato (as they say in Japan, or thank you very much)...
It is a surreal experience in many ways attending a reunion after 40 years since starting life as young student aged 18 or 19 years of age. And in many ways the College that I attended for four very happy years, was somewhat different from many. The reason being that...
If you have never read anyone of these 1,108 blogs then you will not be aware that over the last year I have been battling with cancer. I was diagnosed last September with level 4A bowel cancer. Bowel cancer is the s third biggest killer after prostate and breast...
Well, at last the insane has become the norm, I was in London yesterday on one of the hottest days ever recorded, at one point I went past the House of Commons, going past the statue of one of all time heroes, Winston Spencer Churchill. He, like me must be crying in...
I watched a really interesting documentary at the weekend on Netflicks, to be honest I don't normally bother delving into it, but I just fancied something a bit different, and I came across a documentary about Cambridge Analytica. I was aware of who they were and how...
If you have ever visited Birmingham, you will find it in 2019 a vibrant, diverse and energised City, there is a huge amount of investment pouring into the West Midlands. A lot of money from China, the Middle East, you look around at the City centre and you see lots of...