Not many people know this, but before I studied to be a Physiotherapist I qualified as a journalist from Liverpool John Moores University. I had dreams of reporting on and holding accountable the people responsible for the worst atrocities around the world.

I read everything Kate Adie wrote and looked up to this incredible woman that roared in the face of in-justice.

Well it turns out, that this wasn’t the path for me, but the urge to write has stuck and I regularly find myself starting to write, then stopping or not finding the time or just losing the motivation.

Writing was always something I just did. I used the medium of writing to nurture my creativity as a child and wage great wars on the in-justice of being a 7 year old in world made for grow-ups. Why couldn’t I writ e great novels and investigative pieces from my bedside desk?

I always had at least one subscriber – my Dad. He would read and edit everything...