13/12/2025
Hey everyone,
I just wanted to explain why I’ve been a bit quiet on social media lately.
This past year has been a real mix of emotions. On one hand, watching my daughter grow has been the best thing in the world. She turned one on the 5th of December, and experiencing life through her eyes has been incredible. This Christmas will be our first as a family, and honestly, that feels pretty magical.
On the other hand, it’s been a tough year professionally and financially. A development project we were working on went wrong, and I’ve been left dealing with over £20,000 of debt on top of my existing. It’s one of those situations where you feel like you’ve done everything right — joined the right programs, took guidance, tried to cover every base — and it still didn’t work out. The industry is hard, and maybe the project was too big for where we were at, but we were acting in good faith and under guidance. Now it’s about picking up the pieces.
My business partner has been solid throughout, and we’re working closely together, focusing on smaller projects to pay things down step by step. It’s not easy, and I won’t lie — it knocks the wind out of you sometimes, especially when you feel like light at the end suddenly got further away — but we keep going.
Alongside all that, I’ve been trying to get my own trowel company off the ground, which is actually doing really well. I’ve also got other products progressing, and after two years of work, I’ve just had my patent granted in the USA. That’s a massive achievement for me. I know patents aren’t everything, but to create something genuinely original — something no one else had done in the UK or the US — means a lot. At the very least, it protects the idea and shows the work that’s gone into it.
I also managed to take my first proper holiday in three years back in October — three weeks in the Philippines with family — and that break was much needed.
So yeah, it’s been a year of highs and lows. I’m not complaining, and I’m not looking for sympathy. Life’s difficult for everyone in different ways — this is just my reality over the past year and the reason I’ve been quieter than usual. I’ve been trying to process everything and work through it day by day.
I’ve got a lot planned for 2026 and I’m currently working on a massive project that I can’t wait to share. It’s a huge amount of work, but I genuinely believe it’s going to be something special.
For now, it’s just about keeping going, doing the work, and showing up — for my family, for my businesses, and for myself.
Thanks for understanding.
