Author: Billy Mann

I'm originally from Liverpool and worked as a national magazine journalist for more than 30 years before suffering a stroke at age 53. I started blogging as part of a neuro-rehabilitation programme and wrote the very first entries with one finger of my disabled left hand. Later, art became another therapy for me at Headway East London's Submit To Love Studios. I write about my daily activities and encounters. In 1988, I married Jane. We are still together today, sharing our lives and making each other laugh.

What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?

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To check out the price of... Assisted death in Switzerland. Only then did I discover that Belgium has the best prices. But I think Holland might swing it with one of those Euphoria packages.

Where did your name come from?

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My maternal grandfather My mother wanted to name me Andrew. My father warned that at school I would be teased and called "Andy Mann". That's why I am named after Grandpa Willie. FYI: In the UK Willie is a contraction of William and Billy is a mutation of Willie or sometimes Willy, though that is … Continue reading Where did your name come from?

Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story.

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Another weird food story, yawn... Heston Blumenthal is widely credited with being the crackpot inventor of weird food. But the Victorians were at it too, says an article in the Conversation, and especially with ice-cream. Heston may have his notorious bacon-and-egg ice-cream as one of his flagship "molecular gastronomy" dishes, but in 1885 Mr Whippy … Continue reading Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story.