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 [...]
Easy smiles
Every now and again I come across something that reduces me in seconds to a hysterically giggling wreck. I’ve seen a lot of very funny election-based images and videos the last two weeks, but they’re mostly extremely crass – and all the funnier for it, even if I don’t necessarily agree with the political sentiment. [...]
The Brit Writers Award
In theory, I’m entering the Brit Writers Award in February. To be specific, I’m allegedly entering 4 pieces – the first three chapters of Life in Me, The War Within and The Book of Beginnings and also the short childrens story The Silence of the Snow Dogs. Yeah, I know, I’m kind of laughing too. [...]
A shaky start to November
So far, on average, November and I do not get along. Tomorrow we are third of the way through, which means Christmas is close enough to be both terrifying and exciting at the same time. You know how it is – December is Game Over, the End of Days for 2009, but there are enough [...]
SWF: Sharp Shooters on the ground
Sharp Shooters at the SWF: from left, Kieran Doherty, Adrian Bently, Rob Eveleigh and the Fantastic Mr John Fox
Someone, please turn the pressure up
I entered Starbucks with trepidation, curiosity and quite a lot of difficulty this morning, for about 30 people from what turned out to be the Brutally Early Club – a monthly communion of mad artists – were taking up almost every available seat, table, nook and cranny. In fact, if you take a quick look [...]
Putting the Pro in Procrastination
Wednesday 14 October: Business cards designed and ordered for SWF – check Hostel stay extended to see the Moff on the Thurs – check Train to Cheltenham – OMG SO EXPENSIVE. Ask Marya to cover Sun night – check Several new blogs about writing stuff – check Pitched the new S&R to Bram – check [...]
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL: DAY 2 – THE MOTH
Charlie and I had a designated rendezvous for the Capoeira Knights: Boys from Brazil at 9pm, which left me just enough time to trot up to the Edinburgh International Book Festival beforehand. There were two sessions for 7pm, both sold out, one of which I really wanted to attend. Undeterred, I made my way through [...]