Is this a true story? Yes, of course it is. It’s the meaning behind every story that matters. We all die. Everyone that you have ever known will die. It’s easier with some than others. We may shed a tea for an elderly aunt, but inside we know […]
My Nan was the hardest woman I ever met. A life through war with a brittle Glaswegian soul tempered by me, her one and only grandchild. Coming of age as the darkness of the 1930s fell across Europe, she came from working-class stock, her peer group ripe […]
‘Why don’t you just buy a motorbike?’ The morning before the evening of my debut stand-up comedy debut. Some months earlier, I’d realised my age. I had been doing the same job for twenty-three years. I was 45 years old. I’d been a policeman for nearly half my […]
Growing up with music
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