It will come as little surprise to anyone that I am a huge Wes Anderson fan. The first time I was exposed to his work was when, at college and obsessed with The Catcher in the Rye, a friend lent me his VHS copy of Rushmore, which he sold to me as "the film version …
No Time To Die.
It feels like we have all been waiting a long time for this film to arrive. This is in part due to the global pandemic. I’ve seen the trailer for NTTD so many times that set pieces in the film made themselves apparent before the plot had a chance to do so. It was like …
Plenty of time to die
It feels like we have all been waiting for Daniel Craig's last Bond film for a long time. There's a reason for that. We have. Tonight, I'm off to see No Time To Die, as MGM intended, by sneaking a meal deal and possibly a coffee into the cinema with me and propping my knees …
Respect your elders
Yesterday, I spent some time with the cool older relatives of my partner. It reminded me of conversations I would have with my grandparents (god rest their souls). It left a slightly melancholy feeling with me that I wanted to explore a little by celebrating my grandparents. My nan passed away when I was too …
A day at the races.
Even before we had passed through the less-than-stringent security checks at the gate, I had a feeling our day out was not going to be as expected up until that moment. I don’t know if it was in the stumbling walks of those patrons ahead of us (at 2pm) or the general air that it …
An update
I've failed to post anything to my blog in over a month. There's a very good reason for this. I've been obsessing over something else. Some writing. A bigger THING than anything I've done before. Depending on the edit, it's between 134k and 136k. For the longest time, I've had a goal in mind for …
Review: Helford Honeymoon – Davey Hal
When I sat down to talk to Davey Hal about his new EP, the excitement in his eyes told me that this was a project beyond the work he had shared before. Only some of that was down to the contact he’d had with the Du Maurier estate. The rest is because Helford Honeymoon is …
It’s not finished…. it’s finished.
A few weeks ago, I mentioned the project I had been hard at work on. I am pleased to announce that the latest draft of it is now done. What follows is a lengthy edit process. Taking each page at a time and reading through it until I am satisfied that every word is in …
Am I still writing?
Last week, a friend asked if I was still writing and where they could read more of what I've been doing. While I love that people are aware of my passion for writing and know that it's what I want to be doing more than anything else in the world, I'm not currently in a …
Failing Camp NaNoWriMo
At the start of April, I was bragging about the work I was undertaking, intent on writing 90,000 words in a month. I updated my blog about it every day and then I went radio silent for three weeks. I can't completely cover the reasons for this. All I can say is that something else …
