Love Fail: Fantasy v Reality
In which I fall in love with a jacket, or possibly a man, and then certainly a fantasy of the man, which despite his being a pretty decent prospect, usurps any possible reality. In short, why I am fast approaching my 10 year anniversary of undisturbed spinsterhood. I’m in the tube station leaving Oxford Circus [...]
Notes to self for LSF
So it’s here, the London Screenwriters Festival has arrived and let’s be fair, based on the experiences of the pre-pitching day, there are a few things that I need to remember: 1. leave the cloppy heels at home if I’m going to continue to be unable to sit for more than 40 mins at a [...]
Business Card Aaaargh
The London Screenwriters Festival is almost upon us, which is an occasion on which forcing your business card upon people politely offering your business card to every moving body is deemed socially acceptable, if not mandatory. Packs of writers will rally one another to bouts networking courage through little competitions, like who can give out [...]
Schedule of Awesome (and the C word)
Let’s be honest about this: I am hardly the most qualified person to manage my own life. I’m overly curious, endlessly interested, easily excitable, more easily distractible. Is ‘distractible’ a word? ‘Distractable?’ Whatever. You know what I mean. Attention span of a – - where was I? Oh, life management. Fortunately, while we may not [...]
Hope vs Optimism
Some years ago, philosopher writer Alain de Botton decided that London needed a new school. A school for adults, a school about living well – something grievously neglected in mainstream education – and he called it the School of Life. I first heard about it at the 2010 Hay Festival; it took me until yesterday [...]
NINJA FAIL: Adele vs the Starbucks Hustlers
So this is how it should have been: Settled into my ‘office’ (read: basement of my local Starbucks) and working away like a determined genius on my utterly brilliant novel, I took a break to engage in a witty exchange with the congenial young nerdy dude sharing my table. Mid-repartee we were interrupted by two [...]
Cartoon Crushes
Meet my current desktop. It’s an awful distraction. Every time my right ring finger accidentally strikes F11, there he is, my new love: at the outset a selfish, egotistical, brigand of a man but worse of all, a damn cartoon, which is probably a good Ha Ha drop down from my life-long crush on the [...]
Bagpipes: MIA
It’s Ed Fest 2010, I have 90 minutes invaluable work time in which the 3Ness article urgently requires revision and 40 pages of script even more urgently require being written. Which is probably why I’m uploading very silly photos of Cec’s farewell to Facebook and writing an entirely un-urgent blog instead. Yes, I am that [...]
Failure to Connect
After six weeks, five technical support dudes, three sim cards and two handsets, mobile carrier 3 has finally achieved what I was beginning to consider the impossible: connecting my iPhone for wireless internet to the 3 network. Oh, yes, I now have an iPhone so my blog header is marginally more appropriate. Worrying statistics aside, [...]
Sanctuary
I once took a wrong turn cycling home from Chelsea, and accidentally came across a sanctuary within South Kensington – a magnificent church towering from a garden island around which roads bent and houses stood a respectful distance back. I immediately resolved that I might one day live in one of those houses, abandoning plans [...]