Hello my name is Hugh Emmental

Hugh Emmental
Nov 3 · 1 min read

Guten tag! Dia Daoibh! Good day to you all!

I hereby declare this Medium web page open!

I thought I’d explain why I have done this. I am inflicting the ramblings of a cynic who subsists almost entirely on Guinness and cheese upon those unfortunate enough to come across this page. I wouldn’t do that without reason, comrades.

I was partly inspired by a good friend, John Matalan, who recently decided he needed an outlet to vent his frustration with the peculiar times we live in.

But Hugh has felt for some time that he needs a voice too! At work, I spend almost all of my time dealing with words — but they are never really my own. I am a well-behaved, hard-working, email-sending machine.

As anyone who knows me will be well aware, that is not the real Hugh Emmental.

Who is the real Hugh? Alas, sometimes he himself does not know. But he is definitely lazy, unprofessional and love to rant endlessly about stupid shit going on in our country and the world.

I mean, I still do rant endlessly — residents of the Emmental household know that all too well (my apologies to the family). But I feel the need to put the proverbial pen to paper, to reclaim my written voice, to speak up for the sidelined Hugh.

And so it will be done!

Hugh Emmental will rise.

Yours always,

Hugh Emmental x

Hugh Emmental

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Musing on the state of the world over a slice of Emmental and a pint of Guinness

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