Tag: growing up

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. […]

A Life Changing Experience

26 April 2009

What could be more typically British than having a dog? Even the Romans exported our hunting dogs to the rest of the empire, in the early years of the first century. You know every school boy's favourite song about “One Man and his Dog” going to mow a meadow? It's not one man and his […]