Tag: Writing
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The Stable – Restaurant Review
There are times in life where everything just works. It’s as simple as that. An invention that seems so obvious you can’t imagine life without it, or an occasion that just runs like clockwork. The Stable is a restaurant I’d happily add to the list of places that have this ‘X Factor’ – by which…
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Bored Games – Country Child Magazine
For hour after hour, I’d play on ‘The Triangles’, where tufts of grass became forests in which The A-Team could take cover and broken kerb stones transformed into a ramps that allowed my Knight Rider car to heroically leap any number of death-defying obstacles. I lost teeth, scuffed knees, argued, won (and lost) friends, not…
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When did we ditch niceness?
Now, I’m sure there’s a fair number of you queuing up to label me an overly sensitive snowflake. Fair enough, but I’m serious here. We, as a society, seem to have lost something. We’ve allowed ‘niceness’ to become a negative trait; something to be purged from our systems in case it shows up as weakness.…
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Metro.co.uk piece on Bullying.
I still remember the whistling in my ears. A sudden sense of the world being unsteady and the ground coming up to meet me. Landing hard, I was knocked out. Moments later, my eyes opened as several feet walked away. ‘You showed him,’ said an excited voice. The thing was, he hadn’t shown me anything.…
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Mirror.co.uk: Father’s Day Guide
In the course of human history, more arguments have started over who’s in charge of the TV Remote Control than any other subject. You know it’s true. So give your dad the ultimate gift: 24 hours of the TV he wants to watch – without criticism.
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The Scotsman: MAMIL piece…
It’s that time again. Up and down the country you’ll hear the shrieks as men (old enough to know better) hop around bathrooms trying to staunch the flow of blood after doing their legs a major mischief while trying to shave them smooth. Soon, once 1,000 tiny cuts dry, the same men are dousing themselves…
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Who really wants to be Beach Body Ready?
In my experience, summer in this country is so fleeting that several times I’ve popped inside to make a cup of tea and missed it completely. “What did you do over the summer?” people will ask. “I ate half a bag of Monster Munch. To be honest, I wasted half of the summer struggling to…
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Waxing lyrical…
Did you ever see the piece I did for The Western Morning News about having my legs waxed? It’s well worth a read…
Chris McGuire: Writer 