Ged Thompson

I’ve always believed that words have the power to alter the world we live in, both internally and externally.  I find this apparent in literature mostly, I’m always on the look out for the next book that can reach inside of me, hold me,…

As he stares out of the window, Bob Stone's eyes mist over with clairvoyance of memory. He recites to me tales of working in a jewellers. Tales of drunks coming in to buy engagement rings on a Saturday afternoon and then, later on,…

As Liverpool is set to host the UK’s first ever Panrase tournament, I caught up with Dave Faulkner, an ex World Champion submission wrestler, to find out what ‘Pancrase’ is all about and to discuss his motivations for bringing such an event…

So, CBBC launched their Summer Social event in Liverpool and I was there with a very excited eight year old boy, to see what it was all about.  In case you haven’t heard the ‘CBBC Summer Social’ event was a three day festival aimed at…

I decided to go to Anandair to give anti-gravity yoga a try -- it’s a bit of an experience to say the least! Broken down to its logistics, it's the application of yogic postures with the aid of an elasticised hammock. The complete…

It was around 8pm on the 18th of September 2016. It was dark, the air was damp and I was walking the streets of Tenby, South Wales, resisting the urge to cry my heart out in the middle of a street full of strangers I would probably never…

Lying in the shadows of Liverpool’s once mighty docklands, straddling the-no man’s land between Scotty Road and Bootle, sits a red brick old school gym that has, to me at least, a refreshing absence of earphone deaf, tight t-shirt…