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That feeling when someone is at your front door – selling something. It happened last week to Nikki – and thinking quickly, she took immediate and decisive action. “I’ll get my husband.” You can imagine how I received this news? Disbelief is a polite way of putting it, but inaccurate. Door…
All those years ago when I first presented my young boys with a half a grapefruit each for breakfast, I had no idea where it might lead. They were rejected of course, the grapefruits, I mean. Tom, Sam and Harry basically downed spoons. Too bitter. Too unappetising and on my part, too ambitious. “We want…
You might be aware of celebrity golf days – whereby businessmen pay top dollar for the honour of playing golf with usually a professional golfer and a celebrity. I don’t fit well in to either of these categories. I am not a celebrity. And I am certainly not a scratch golfer. And so,…
We might all snigger every year, when two American baseball teams contest the World Series. America is still the foremost nation on earth, but claims of being World Champions in a contest confined to their own shores is delusional and emotes the affectionate phrase – Only in America. The Washington Nationals are the current World…
March 5th is a date I hanker back to – a time when life was more normal. I was flying to Dubai for a quick set of club gigs and I had a very busy remaining March to return to with a series of dinners and events to speak at. But who knew what lay…
A big lockdown breakthrough this week when finally, an online gig came off. Lots of enquiries to date – to which I have always said ‘yes’ and without needing to check my diary! But this enquiry firms up. The agent calls – ‘Dom, this gig’s on. Get your shit together.’ A twenty minutes slot…
This is a post about people we admire. A post I have been looking forward to writing all year. And timely, too – six months on from my first post of the year – writing about The Lunch Bowl Network in Kenya. Arguably my most important post and well worth a read – even…
It’s a dull feeling when something on a machine breaks and renders the whole contraption useless. Good for the dump and nothing more and the feeling of guilt that comes with such an action. Out of sight but not so out of mind for someone who cannot abide waste and our throwaway age. …
I am bemused by how many people appear to be enjoying lockdown – and talk as though it might be a new way forward. The new era whereby work is something that we did, do you remember? Or that work is something we do – but we now do it from home. How civilised…
What I do for a living is certainly unusual. Phrases I have heard over the years include… I couldn’t/wouldn’t do your job. Your job is my worst nightmare. And finally – a phrase which can be misconstrued by sensitive/creative types and particularly so if heard after a show… Why do you do your job? However,…
