Living with REALLY long Covid – A 2022 update from a ‘First-Waver’.

Living with REALLY long covid - an update from the ‘first wave’ in 2022. It was twenty-five months ago, back in September of 2020, that I wrote my first blog - a piece that chronicled my experiences with long covid at the six-month mark. Little did I realise that, long as it seemed, six months was just …

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‘Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome onstage…’ Memories of being the guy behind the sound desk at a legendary comedy club.

These days, it seems I can’t watch TV without seeing famous faces that used to be familiar to me in my day job as a sound engineer for Jongleurs. My wife gets fed up with me pointing them all out and saying things like ‘he kidnapped me’ or ‘she got me so drunk once!’ or ‘he was a right so …

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Neuro-diversity, fart jokes, stereotypes, raging self-doubt and the Mos Eisley cantina? But all I wanted to do was write a kids book!

What was supposed to be a fun story about a magic book ended up sending me down the rabbit hole of my own insecurities and self-cognition. But at the end of the day, I still liked the fart gags... I’m a new author and as I write this, I’m just hours away from the release …

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Author or Imposter? Only time will tell…

In this blog post, I muse on what it means to be an author. Is writing and releasing a book simply enough? Imposter syndrome has followed me my whole adult life, is this just another case of 'impostery', or can I actually let myself feel proud of myself this time? I’ve just written a novel. …

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Living with Long Covid-19

Six months after being hospitalised with Covid-19, I’m still struggling with the ongoing effects. The long term impact of COVID-19 is chronically under-reported and has huge potential ramifications. Here’s how it affects my daily life six months on... It’s been a long time since I caught COVID-19 – six months in fact. I was one …

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