I know how to write but making people laugh requires skills that are in a whole different league. As some of my readers may know, I’m doing the #66write challenge. It involves writing an article a day for 66 days (plus at least three tweets and reading 10 pages of…

Did I manage to write them in 20 minutes? Read on to find out… Apparently, writing “100 things in 20 minutes” is er… well, a thing. Fellow #66write-er Dave Sharpe has had a go at it. He was inspired by TzeLin Sam’s article 100 Things You Need to Know about…

Vancouver was an eye-opener in more ways than one. One miserable day at the end of November, I resigned from my boring job and bought a ticket to Vancouver, Canada. I had no idea what I was going to do there. Why Vancouver, I hear you ask. Why not Lima…

And can you have one without the other? As you read these words you are consuming content. As I write them I am creating. The dictionary defines ‘create’ as the act of bringing something into existence or making something new and imaginative. Children are natural creators. A piece of string…

Here’s what I said to some tricky ‘would you rather’ questions… When serial side hustler Jamie Northrup - Minimalist Hustler published his 10 questions about side hustles, I felt compelled to answer them. Would you rather get 1 million dollars or 1 million followers on your favorite social media platform…

Five possible reasons why you might want to say goodbye to it. They say a dog is for life. What about a side hustle? Let’s say you’re in your fifties and have spent years building up a successful side hustle. Maybe you are still running it alongside your 9–5. Or…

Every day, Alex Price publishes a one-word prompt on Twitter. It’s a cinquain prompt. For those of you who don’t know what cinquains are, they’re 5-line syllabic poems with a distinctive structure that goes like this: - 1st line: 2 syllables - 2nd line: 4 syllables - 3rd line: 6 syllables - 4th line…

A story of rust, rattle cans, and a squatting toad on wheels When you hear the word ‘Tahiti’ what is the first thing that springs to mind? Do you think of a French Polynesian island with sun-kissed beaches and a laid laid-back lifestyle? Lucky you! For me, the word ‘Tahiti’…

I’ll never forget being at the head of the breakaway group with Laurent Fignon on that scorching July day in 1984. …