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Ben Morris: BootsnAll Author

By: Ben Morris

Ben Morris
BootsnAll Author

Hanging out in the Cu-Chi tunnels, Vietnam

I only went travelling as I never bothered going to University and I need some stories to tell the grandchildren.

I haven’t really a lot to say about myself. I fell off a motorbike when I was ten and spent a few days in hospital, and when I was twelve I was on a game show called ‘Get Your Own Back,’ on which I was covered in green slime. When I was seventeen I pushed a car down my hill into a lamppost after it ran out of petrol and three years ago I camped out on a major roundabout in a little blue tent.

Academically I’ve been appalling and I’ve never fulfilled my potential in my employment either. My friends say I’m a really nice guy though and my long-term girlfriend is standing by me as she is sure I’m going to come good one of these days! I’m 23 now though, and she may be losing patience.

I have no pets. We had a goldfish but it broke in half, shortly before I applied for a job at the RSPCA as a press officer. They never replied.

Feel free to email Ben at i_am_benno@hotmail.com. Click his name below for links to all of Ben’s BootsnAll articles.

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