An excerpt from Chapter 4 of 50 Years of Hard Road by Nick Charles MBE. I considered my predicament from every angle following my meeting with the fish man. I walked for miles around the crowded streets of London, looking at various shop windows and sniffing hungrily at the different…
An excerpt from Chapter 1 of 50 Years of Hard Road by Nick Charles MBE. ‘The trouble with dying is it’s so bloody final!’ I was lying flat on my back across a railway track, a hundred yards up from my local railway station with my head on the line,…
How do I know if I am an alcoholic? Firstly, let’s do away with the term ‘alcoholic’; it’s an old-school term that comes laden with centuries of baggage and which hinders progressive thinking about alcohol use and possible misuse. Instead, let’s use the term alcohol dependency. As the name suggests,…