Tag: childhood

I grew up in the 90s and 00s without a TV: instead I built stuff

26 March 2014

Throughout my childhood, my family never had a TV. From the day I was born, until I moved out when I was 19, I had relatively little exposure to TVs or their content. At primary school, all my classmates talked about Cartoon Network and 'play-stations' and I had no idea what it was all about. […]

Why am I vegetarian? A two decade retrospective.

19 November 2012

I'm vegetarian, but I talk about it as little as possible. Years and years of people asking me the same question, throughout my childhood, teenage years and adult life have rather blotted out any emerging desires to talk about it, but I think it's important to explain… I was raised in a vegetarian family. When […]