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Pills and Presidents
Hilarious, engaging, shocking: Pills and Presidents takes you behind the scenes in some crazy worlds. Share trials, tribulations, disasters and triumphs, all told with mesmerising style and wit.
"Made me laugh out loud!" Doug Simpson, (former editor, The Pharmaceutical Journal).
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My Journey
I am a writer, cameraman, photographer, producer, director and pharmacist. If it sounds like a case of restless legs it was. So how did I get here?
I returned to Hay-on-Wye after qualifying as a pharmacist and set to work with my father in the historic local Chemists.
This was a traditional pharmacy where we actually made things. I could formulate my own mixtures, cosmetics, polishes, drinks, stink bombs...
But something started nagging me. Why were so many people taking medicines they didn't need. Why were so many people, with beautiful homes in this beautiful town, so depressed, downing benzodiazepines like there was no tomorrow.
My sister brought a friend home from Oxford and a relationship started. I suddenly found myself sat with the headmasters' family in Wellington College. They were discussing Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' over breakfast. I didn't like being so out-of-my-depth and I signed up for an English Literature A-level at night school. I loved the course, rising each morning at 4 a.m. to study before work. One day Mr Spiers, our wonderful, crusty, Canadian professor, said that now was the time to apply for University, if anyone was interested. I was.
Goldsmiths' College, University of London is an inspiring Victorian beauty with a huge library. I practically lived in it. Social anthropology, philosophy, mythology, psychology — I delved into everything trying to find answers to my nagging questions. I worked as a locum in Brixton to pay for the course, a far cry from Hay-on-Wye.
I started travelling and taking on challenges — needing to understand the world and myself. I worked in Advertising, on trawlers and in bars in the Isle of Man, bought a one-way ticket to Rio with a friend, taught English and Poetry, got married in Bogotá, lead adventure tours in Egypt and Peru, started a production company...
Long story short: I worked off my demons, sorted myself out, discovered my own philosophy and created my own happiness. My first book, Pills and Presidents, is the result of some of these adventures.