What is Raging? Billy (my younger brother) pretending that he is fighting a wild racoon in his sleep, a livid tiger when it’s lamb leg got taken away from it by a hungry lion and a scarlet, amber and saffron fire crackling like gunshots in the middle of a war.

What is loud? A man with a bagpipe playing on the cobbled streets of Glasgow, Pavarotti singing in the Sydney Opera House and Niel Armstrong shooting up into space to find if there is any life up there. 

What is Dirty? My football boots after playing a match for Malpas at the muddy social, a little kid eating chocolate with it smeared all over her face and the insults that politicians give each other about their campaign.