Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

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Comedy and Music run through my veins and I love writing about them both, I adore interviewing acts and always on the lookout for something new!

It's also funny how his team Plymouth and mine Brighton started the decade in the Second Division only to tumble down to the Fourth tier in roughly the same seasons.the books written by Josh Widdicombe and Rob Beckett – so when they had a co-written book come out, it was a no brainer. From only having four people in his year at school, to living in a family home where they didn't just not bother locking the front door, they didn't even have a key.

It is so well observed and frequently had me laughing out loud (and then having to explain to my husband what I’d found so funny). Getting to the epilogue was genuinely hard because his nostalgic recap made me miss what I wish we could recapture—optimism. This is a brilliant book – funny, clever, well written, brilliantly observed and a roller coaster of reminiscing with a dollop of popular culture from the 2000s onwards thrown in too.Although as he points out, knowing it isn’t real does nothing to diminish just how terrifying to watch it is even today. The only elements I wasn’t keen on were the football (too much of it if you’re not a fan) and occasionally the sentences weren’t structured properly. Josh's frustrations are still bubbling over, from his overflowing shower to his contactless card via a night train back from Edinburgh. Ghostwatch: Unlike Josh (and many others) I never thought this notorious dramatized ‘live broadcast from a real haunted house’ was actually real. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you.