Leaving on A Jet Plane
Why not leave flying to the birds
Me Myself And I
The ins and outs of time on your own
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
But one idiot might be
Last of The Summer Wine
A harebrained time of year to go sober
The Big Man In The Sky
Does he actually have a beard
How Did It Get So Late So Soon
A mid-life crisis walks into a bar
You Can Act Like A Man
Some things on the new year and growing up
A Dummy’s Guide to Feeling Alright
Out of the frying pan into the fun
They Say The Desert Has No Memory
A four day trip to a land time never knew existed
Lend Me Your Ears
The DTBOI podcast has arrived
Life Comes as The End
Some things on grief and beyond
Express Train to Depression Central
In and out in five days was some sort of record
Falling in Love From The Back of A Sofa
Who said you had to go anywhere to live the great ecstasies
Best Laid Plans
When life gives you lemons you paint that shit gold
Resources for A Restless World
Quietening the mind in the age of anxiety
All I Do Is I Do Nothing
An existential quandary to end all quandaries
Here Comes The Sun It’s Alright
Something in the air and it's not winter
You Wake Up One Day And You’re A Psycho
My cousin coming to stay brought home some truths
The Universe Is Listening
Woah we might be more connected than we think
New Year’s Revolutionary
This year is about focus on feeling as empty as possible
Conversations with Folks
Going home for Christmas should come with a warning
When Sunday Comes
Messi Maradona and a shot at immortality
Last Call for Drinks
The barman in the sky is sounding out his bell
Ya Dun Got Ghosted Son
The text that never came
A House on A Hill
Some point we all heading back to Pride Rock
The New Cross Blonde
To crash and burn is human, but not this hard
I Want To See Mountains Frodo Mountains
Twelve days that taught me how to cry, almost
Last Man on The Earth
You wake up one day and you're the only one left
Time Travel Technology and the Beatles
How the Fab Four led me a merry dance back to the future
Flat White
Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground
Today Was A Good Day
A day in the life when everything is quite alright
The Secrets of Not Doing Shit
Sometimes the way to feel better is to make yourself feel worse
Making Rainbows Out of Something Painful
A six week slide off the edge of the earth
This Is How You Lose Her
A month into a break and suddenly I'm Ricki Lake
The Best Is Yet to Come
A cycle up France before the leaves began to fall
This Is The Story of A Holiday
A week on an Aeolian island was more tonic than I could handle
Go Hard or Goatee
Meddling with the face-fuzz continuum came not without risk
I Gotta Go See About A Girl
A sweet and salty sub-zero history of first dates
Riding The Waves of The Multiverse
What the hell Psychedelics reveal about the nature of reality
Not Stomach Enough for Mains
Introducing Bitesize the short-form arm of dropthebeatonit
Chronicles of A Butcherer pt 2
Nothing like mid Feb to make one feel the opposite of loved
Chronicles of A Butcherer pt 1
Can YouTube relationship coaches really nurse you through a breakup
Quitting The Booze Never Looked This Good
Staying off the sauce is a whole lot easier than one might think
Freezing All News Intake During A Pandemic
The surprising effects of a 28 day break from the headlines
In Filth It Will Be Found
The acute uncoolness of being a clean freak
Beauty And Awe And Psychedelics And Monkeys
Why does beauty move us and what does being moved even mean
The Small Print of A Three Day Water Fast
Not eating for seventy two hours is like the best drug on the planet
A Lifelong Love Affair With That Ice Cold Wizardry
The craft beer revolution was the most important event of the 21st century
Instagram And The Masks We Wear
The internet is making psychopaths out of all of us
Love in The Time of Corona IV
The country edges towards the peak as the world falls to its knees
Love in the Time of Corona III
One month into the pandemic the country comes to a standstill
Love in The Time of Corona II
The world begins to understand shit is about to get real
Love in The Time of Corona I
The week in March when whispers on the wind start to reach us from Italy
The World Makes Sense When You’re Sat in The Tub
Never figured I was a bath man until I had a bath man
A Day in The Life of A Bike Messenger
From the seat of a bike the city is a huge morphing beast that beckons to you
When Your Only Option Is The Next Best Thing
Invisible doors that appear in walls we cannot see to guide us through
The Espresso in The Cup Runneth Over
A semblance of backstory to explain a clinical addiction to quadruple ristrettos
An Honest Look at A Life of Lies
It can take a man three decades to realise he can't stop lying
One Foot In Front of The Other Endlessly
100 miles through the Highlands will lodge itself in your mind for keeps
The Strange Feeling of Watching Your Hair Fall Out
Going bald felt like the first sign of the Reaper rolling into town
A Smartphoneless Existence In 2020
The modern world with a Nokia 301 is a Wild West full of the unexpected
The Mind-Bending Majesty of a Dawn Run
Half an hour at sunrise and unlocking doors to unchartered realms
A YouTube Addict Brings His All-Time Top Twelve
The shiniest emeralds shining out like suns from the gutter of YouTube
The Dark And Lonely World of YouTube Addiction
When the video platform shackles you to its algorithms watch the hell out
25 Things My Adult Brain Taught Me
A few crumbs of wisdom the last ten years of life left lying around
Parenting as An Act of Blind Faith
Becoming a dad to a little girl must be completely terrifying
A Shock First Meeting with A Plant Medicine
The mystery of the ancient Amazonian brew that pries open your mind
Waiting on a Text From a Girl That Isn’t Incoming
An unrequited SMS can lead direct to Dante's seventh circle
Football The Love Hate Mess Of A Lifetime
The beautiful game that gets you by the balls and makes your life a misery
Coming Back to Life Feels Alright Actually
The end of a long cold episode of feeling like dogshit
If It Was in Doubt He Was Sure of An Adventure
A ten day bike trip through France released some demons
A Dawning Realisation About War
Cycling through Bavaria one day a thought about the Great War clicked
Going off The Booze Should Come with A Warning
Who knew you might have to start drinking to save yourself from sobriety
The Hard-Earned Wisdom of The Bicycle
The bike is alive if you put your ear to the metal you will hear it whispering
This Wim Hof Guy Can Bite Me
All this cold water therapy stuff is getting completely out of hand
The Story Of A Bike Theft
A middle finger raised to injustice and a victory for good vibes everywhere
Taking A Dump in A Health Food Shop
Losing all bowel control in a quaint neighbourhood eatery is less fun that it sounds
If You Want to Know How to Go Out In Style
The beautiful way the writer of Calvin and Hobbes drew his creation to a close
The Song We Sing For The Old
A story about time and change and holding a lighter up to our elders
The Greatest Story Never Told
The time a very strange thing happened on the top deck of a night bus
Love Eventually In The Arrival Lounge of T5
Can picking up your old man from Heathrow go more wrong than this
Brooks Was Here So Was Red
The heavy depressive episode that took its toll and taught me much at the same time
An Ode To Sundays The Loneliest Day of All
The most sweetly lazy day of the week can be a dagger in the heart
The Most Incriminating Photo Ever Taken
No man has ever got himself into muddier waters with the lensing of a lone photograph
Paterson And Endings And New Beginnings
We stoop and build 'em up again with worn-out tools
A Guide To Continental Iced Coffee
If someone had said iced coffee would come to mean this much to me I would've spat out my green tea
A Yo! to Nature on The Eve of A Bike Trip
I'll take woods and streams for 400 please, Bob
No One Knows Anything Ever
My parents' wedding day was a case study in nobody knowing what the hell they're up to
The Time I Worked In An Office
The strange and illuminating lessons learned from working in an office
One Puff at A Time My Asthma And Me
Getting your Ventolin out on a first date is a vibe killer
3000 kilometres at 4000 metres
Cycling the rooftop of the world for days and days in the middle of winter
These Non-Dairy Milk Substitutes Are Lethal
The Almond Milk Vortex sucked me in and spat me back out
The End of the Martian is Deep AF
A walloping life lesson from Matt Damon at the end of the sci-fi classic
Remember The First Day Back At School
Casting my mind back to primary school and the little guy I once was
How To Join Instagram From A Laptop
Joining the social media titan from my Mac circa 2016 was a world of pain
Prepping for The Most Terrifying Journey Of All
Fear on the eve of the Tour Divide Mountain Bike Race
A Sunset My Brother and Wayne Rooney
The day started like any other for my bro walking along a beach in Barbados
How Instagram Looks From Over Here
ET phone home ET leave phone alone
A Bunch of Stuff Your Uncle Can Teach You
Some thoughts in memory of my uncle and the things he left behind
The Trouble When Strangers Are Too Nice
You want a light sprinkling of danger when you step out the house
One of The Weirdest Nights of My Life
A night in the Ibis Hotel London Docklands for no good reason whatsoever
My Parents And Tech And John Travolta
My rents are growing older ungracefully and I don't know what to do
You Are Not Stallone I Am Here With You
Cliffhanger was one of the standout films of any half decent childhood
Morning Boys How’s The Water
The most famous commencement speech of all time
The Tiny Little Weirdnesses That People Are Made Of
The idiosyncrasies of each human being that make them no-one else
Evolution Tracers Or How To Go Back In Time
Who would've thought a humble blogger could crack the code to time travel
My Father The Great Bonfire of The Vanities
The photo of my father in a yellow raincoat that became his most prized possession
What’s The Difference Between Us
The fastest way to know who people are is watching how they respond to you
There Is This Coffee Shop And A Girl
Some day maybe I'll become the focus of a mad unrequited love affair
The Worst Birthday of All Time
You don't forget the day nobody remembers your birthday
The Weirdest Four Letter Word in The World
Some meandering thoughts on the declaration of the L-word
When He Got Sober He Got Lonely
A third person excerpt on the peculiar by-product of going off alcohol
Two Gees Wallace Is The Master Chef
An ode to my favourite big bald boiled egg of a tv personality
Not So Smart Phone
The gauntlet you run with a stubborn refusal to adopt smartphone technology
Quite Often on Pills on Hot Dancefloors
A girl across a bar and your mind playing tricks on you
Meditation For The Nation
Everyday stuff to keep peace with my soul