John Bishop

I have decided to write a blog about my favourite stand up comedian John Bishop and how he cheers me up when I'm down.

I first became aware of John Bishop when he was a panellist on the TV show a League of their own and I found him funny from day one, He was the first stand up comedy DVD I bought was his second stand up tour Sunshine. And I found Sunshine so funny and loved every minute of it, I then brought his first stand up tour DVD Elvis has left the building and my favourite tour of his on DVD Rollercoaster I found that tour so funny on DVD.
My first time I went to see John Bishop was in Regents theatre in Ipswich and I enjoyed every moment I was lucky enough to meet John on my way from the gig and he was lovely to meet so friendly, and he even tweeted nice to meet you which made my day. I then went on the same tour to see him in Supersonic at Wembley arena and I enjoyed the tour and bought the DVD as soon as it came out.


I recently went to  his latest tour winging it at the o2 and I was feeling down with anxiety and was debating whether or not to attend the show but I'm glad I did I enjoyed every moment and I will be going to the show again In Ipswich with my nan and my mate and I'm so looking forward to it. When I'm feeling down I put on a John Bishop DVD to cheer me up and it normally does because his so funny and I enjoy watching him.

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Friendship

friendship is described as a Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people. Friendship is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an association and I'm blessed to have many great friends and I will tell you how I meet some of my friends.

most of my friends I meet tough the BPRL which is an online racing league I use to take part in, On the Xbox and I have spoken and chatted with some fantastic people through Xbox and on our group chat on facebook and on snapchat. ever since 2015 at the British Grand Prix we have met up at the grand prix ever since I have met my friend Josh Saban at the formula E  and he was nice enough to win me a prize to meet some F1 drivers I have met some fantastic people through the BPRL like Josh Mills, Josh, Saban,Alex Fearon, Karl Chard, Rees Foreman, Matteo Erminio Sardu, and George Mullen , I looking forward to meeting many people from the BPRL like Sean, Jay and Wanye from Ireland and many people from the BPRL. and I'm not forgetting my best friend Alex Fearon who was there for me in my darkest hour, and I have met him 4 times and was so happy when he came to the Anthony Joshua fight with me and my other best friend Ben Walcott who I'll come on to in a bit.

Next coming to my friend Dan Curme who I meet while in school we were in the same form and we've always got along well and joke about football with him being a Chelsea fan and me being an Arsenal fan, And I was happy to meet up with him again at the community shield this year at Wembley. Next I have my mate David Butt who we went to school together but never spoke till we went to college together and we have got on very well playing Xbox sharing the same interests and have got on very well.

Now I'll come on to my two Friends from my old form group at school Becca Stone and Ben Walcott. Becca was a girl in my form Group and she was nice and we saw each other again when I was volunteering for Douglas Carswell and then we ran into each other again when I was coming home from an Arsenal Match and we had a nice chat she is now travelling the world but was still there for me when I needed help.Ben Walcott was a person  who I went to school and he stuck up for me when people use to pick on me, Sadly we lost touch but started speaking again when he commented on my picture with Anthony Joshua and we met up for a coffee and had a great chat we have been to the Anthony Joshua fight together with his dad and my mate Alex and we had a great time.

I'm blessed to have so many great friends and me sorry if I missed anyone out but these people have been amazing towards me. 

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Attending the British Grand Prix

As many people know I'm a huge fan of formula one and I have attended the British Grand Prix since 2013 so I thought I'll write about my experiences of going to the British Grand Prix.

I first attended the British Grand Prix back in 2013 as a 18th birthday present due to the Grand Prix being June 30th meaning it was one day after my birthday and I got up early and got the coach from Colchester at 5:45. I arrived at Silverstone just before GP2 now F2 race begins and hearing the engines of GP2 was amazing and before the race, I went to the fan zone and raced on a Segway and went on the McLaren 4d simulator. and I brought with my birthday money a Sebastian Vettel cap and a Red Bull racing shirt and then I took my seat for the race at farm curve and I was right by pit exit and hearing the V8 engines for the first time was amazing. The race was interesting and Hamilton suffered a tyre blowout but had an amazing recovery drive and the downside of the day was when Vettel suffered gearbox failure but overall I loved my first time at Silverstone.

I attended the Grand Prix again in 2014 and this when F1 moved to a V6 hybrid engine and I was sitting in Luffield and got to watch an amazing battle between Vettel and Alonso. 2015 and it was the first time I got to see my friends from the BPRL which is the online racing league I got to race in.And I loved meeting up with them and it was the first year Vettel was driving for Ferrari and he finished p3 when I meet up with my friends we walked around the track and it was nice.

2016 I wasn't planning to attend the Grand Prix due only getting out of Hosptial a few weeks ago but my parents paid half of the ticket as a birthday present and it was lovely getting to see my friends again and again we walked the-the side of the track and it was nice I also got to buy my first Ferrari Vettel cap. It was a mixed weather race. 2017 I bought my ticket but I was feeling awful mentally and I didn't want to go but my friends wanted me to come and I was glad I went I hadn't laughed and smiled like I had in a long time I had fun with my friends and after the race, we meet up on the track after the race and it was amazing. I plan to attend the British Grand Prix for all 3 days next season and camp at the track and hope to meet drivers mainly Sebastian Vettel by waiting outside the driver's exit.

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My love of Arsenal and how it's helped me

I know I've sort of covered this in a previous post nearly a year ago but I want to talk about more about my love for Arsenal and how football helps deal with my depression.

My depression both times has started or begun during the football season so I've got something to distract me and to focus on and when the football season is over and done for the summer I feel lost without Arsenal.I know it sounds silly but I just feel lost without Arsenal to get passionate about to and to focus my energy on and have something to distract me. Going to Matches at the Emirates was my release and is my happy place and one of the happiest days during my depression was when Arsenal Won the FA Cup by beating Chelsea 2-1 my neighbours said a few weeks later they could hear me shouting at the TV seeing Arsenal lift the cup made me feel so happy. I know people will say football doesn't relax you maybe they are right supporting arsenal is a mixture of emotions and me I'm proud that Arsenal brings theses emotions out of me. Also another time Arsenal made me happy was when I went to buy this season Arsenal shirt feeling the proud of buying the shirt on the same day Arsenal Signed Alexandre Lacazette and was so happy since he was a player I had wanted Arsenal to sign for years and then I went on a stadium tour so it was an Arsenal full day for me and I enjoy going to the armoury to buy my shirt and feeling the pride of wearing the Arsenal colours and badge and trying the shirt on for the first time in the fitting room feels me with pride .

Now I'm going to talk a bit about my love for Arsenal again I enjoy going to the Emirates either by myself or with my mum I enjoy doing my usual walk from Highbury & Islington station to the Emirates. stopping to have something to eat and my eyes light up when I see the Emirates for the  time when I see it from Hornsey road and walking into the shop to look at what I can spend my money one and after that to look at Thierry Henry statue as my all time favorite Arsenal player and then I go into the ground and enjoy watching the teams warm up and then the match. if I'm using Finsbury park station I like to go have a look at Arsenal old ground Highbury and see still looks beautiful from the time I first saw her when I went to my first match there at the last season of Highbury e against Manchester City.

My three current favourite Arsenal players are Alexis Sanchez, Alexandre Lacazette and Theo Walcott and my all time Favorite Arsenal player is Thierry Henry who I've written a blog post about and Jens Lehmann and Dennis Bergkamp and  Freddie Ljungberg who I meet when Arsenal invited me and my mum and brother to watch the teams arrive and he was there  and  my favourites arsenal kits are this seasons and the last season at Highbury kit. I also got to meet arsenal Legend Ian Wright when he was working for BT, I also enjoyed going to Wembley twice this year to watch Arsenal once last season for the semi final of the FA Cup against man city and again this season for community shield both times Arsenal won so I was happy.

I have been an Arsenal member since 2004 when I become a junior gunner and then a silver membership and Arsenal were so kind to me when I missed the deadline when I was in hospital with mental health they let me renew late after I wrote to the club and I will always be great to Arsenal. I know if you follow me on social you know I moan and laugh about Arsenal but I will never stop loving arsenal till the day I die.

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My love for Thierry Henry

As Today (3rd of August) is the anniversary of Thierry Henry joining Arsenal and as he is my all time favourite Arsenal player and a personal hero of mine I thought I would write a little blog post about Thierry.

Thierry Henry joined Arsenal in August the 3rd 1999 from Juventus for an estimated £11 million and he scored his first goal against Southampton and would go onto win 2 league titles and 3 Fa cups with Arsenal and scored in my opinion so many beautiful goals for Arsenal including being the last player to score at Arsenal old ground Highbury and in his time with Arsenal he scored 228 over two stints as and becoming Arsenal captain and all time record goal scorer. Henry would leave Arsenal in June 2007 which broke my heart since I loved Thierry Henry and he would go on to join Barcelona where he would win the champions league and La Liga twice and he would later go on to join New York Red Bulls where during this time he would rejoin Arsenal on loan where he would score on his first game back against Leeds  and he would score in his last match in England against Sunderland.

In my personal opinion, Thierry Henry is and will always be the best player to play for Arsenal Football club my personal favourite goal of Thierry Henry was his goal against Real Madrid in the champions league in 2006 and my saddest moment was when Thierry left Arsenal because as a child I adored Thierry like there was no tomorrow, I had a Thierry Henry poster and I would get his name on the back of all my Arsenal shirts and would any TV show that had Thierry on it and watch every Arsenal and when he left I would watch a few Barcelona matches if Thierry was playing and I would watch France matches if Thierry Henry was playing and it was shown on UK TV. and I enjoy watching Thierry when he is a Panduit on TV and when during the Euro championships and I was in the hospital with mental health I would enjoy watching and listening to Thierry. And my favourite all time memory for me was as a 10-year-old getting to meet Thierry Henry at a Juniors gunners Christmas party this will always be my favourite memory of Henry.

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Depression round 2

In this blog post, I will talk about the return of my depression the reason I'm talking about depression is to raise awareness of mental health and how you should speak to someone rather than keeping it to yourself and letting it build up.

The reason why I believe my depression had returned was just before I was discharged I had stopped taking my medication I believed in myself that I was 100% mentally well again. But soon after I was discharged by my mental health nurse things started to go down hill for me again mentally, I started to feel weak again mentally I was ok but not 100% I started to begin to have self-doubt in myself and my anxiety started again. By June time I had become so anxious and on edge and had so much self-Doubt and I started to develop suicidal thoughts again just over a year since they were last in my head, I just believed in myself I was worthless and I didn't want to be alive anymore and at the moment I began to plan it I googled suicide and ways to commit it and I even planned a day to do it the day I choose was the day after the British Grand Prix the day after I would spend with friends, One day I just had enough and wanted to jump in front of a train and One night I felt I had enough of life and the world and I was planning to take a load of paracetamols and go to sleep and hope to never wake up, I had posted a good night note of Facebook and went to bed in hope I would never wake up but after four  I got scared and began to cry this was at 2 am and people had commented on it and I felt a weird feeling. The next morning I felt sad I felt a failure for not being able to do it not being able to end my life.By this time a friend in Australia had contacted my old form tutor at school and who called for help and I'm so grateful to my old form tutor and my old class mate and friend for calling for help and it began the help I really need, I had to go to hospital and see someone from the mental health team the mental health nurse I saw was really nice and he told me the importance of taking my medication and then we talked a bit about Doctor Who. The first my parents found out how bad my mental health was when the police turned up at my sisters looking for me and then they had to take me to the hospital and I'm so grateful for the love they had shown me. a few weeks before I started paying for private counselling but I felt it wasn't working and I was wasting my money.

A few weeks later a few days before the British Grand Prix and my planned suicide date.  I was back on the medication and still saw my counsellor but I felt so upset with in myself so angry and fed up with my life I called the Samaritans and spoke to them for 20 minutes. Then I remember the card the mental health nurse gave to me in the hospital with a number for the crisis team who I called a had an appointment for Monday but then. I went to see my parents and they know something wasn't alright and when I asked my mum to take me home on the car ride home I told her I didn't want to be alive anymore and then she called the Crisis team who gave me an urgent appointment for Saturday the day before the British Grand Prix and I went to the assessment place and got assessed.  I was told I had clinical depression and I didn't know what to make of it, I was given two options, Option 1 was to go back into Hosptial which I wasn't keen one mainly because I didn't enjoy the last few weeks of the hospital last time I was there and Option 2 was to receive treatment at home was I was very keen on.

The next day I went to the British Grand Prix and saw my friends and they made it the Best British Grand Prix that I had ever attend I hadn't smiled or laughed like how I did for a while they really made me feel like I had true friends and I will always be so grateful to. The Monday after the British Grand Prix I started my treatment for my depression and as of  Today(Monday 31st July)  I was discharged from the Home treatment team and even though I don't feel 100% mentally I feel stronger mentally and starting to get self-belief again.

I would encourage anyone who is struggling with mental health to speak to someone a friend, A family member or a Gp don't bottle it up like I did and let it get so bad like I did. Before I end this I would like to Thank my Family and Friends who have supported me through this.
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My love of trains and getting to ride the Flying Scotsman

Before I start this blog I would like to say sorry for the lack of posts in 2017 I'm struggling to come up with ideas to write about In this post, I will talk about my love of trains and my recent ride on the world famous Flying Scotsman steam train.

My love of trains when I was a little boy with my favourite TV show as a child Thomas the tank engine, My favourite thing to do on weekends was to ride trains on national rail or the London Underground with my nan or grandad. One time when I was about between 5-7 and I was travelling on the London Underground when we meet a jubilee line driver who let me inside his train cab which I loved every moment of it.

One of the trains I loved as a little boy was the Eurostar train and I got to finally ride it when I was about 9 on a family holiday to Disney land I also got to ride the french TGV trains which I enjoyed very much, This was when Eurostar was running out of London waterloo and before HS1 opened which I have ridden twice once from France to London in 2010 and once on the Javelin train between Stratford and London st Pancras.

The first time I got to ride a steam train was in 2006 on a family holiday in Minehead and the holiday park we were staying back onto the West Somerset Railway Heritage Railway which I believe is the longest steam railway in Britain I loved riding the steam trains on the line I think steam trains are beautiful and I hoped since then I would get to ride a steam train again.

My love for the flying Scotsman started when I was a little boy hearing stories about how fast it would travel between London and Edinburgh I dreamed one day of getting to ride her one day but sadly during most of my childhood she was being rebuilt and only came back into service last year I recently brought a canvas of the flying Scotsman travelling past the emirates stadium, I've always wanted to own the flying Scotsman train set but it's hard to get hold of.

I finally got to live my dreams to ride the Flying Scotsman on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway with a coach holiday and I was so happy the journey went by so fast I felt the line I got to ride on was beautiful scenery I wish the journey was longer I took so many pictures of the train and I even lucky enough to stand on the foot -plate and I got to look inside the cab which I loved I forget to take any pictures sadly since my phone was with the person taking my picture of me on the foot plate.

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