While cycling along from A to B I saw this really big guy - extremely overweight - strutting in that manner of a big guy who wants you to know and appreciate just incredibly big they are. You know that laid-back side-to-side rolling gait. Within seconds of seeing the guy the name/phrase ‘Big Joe’ popped into the old noggin, and I felt a story coming on.

This episode is not about the finished story, rather, it’s brief look around one or two sections of my personal story-making factory…