Kits and Mortar Tumblr Strange Attractor Del.icio.us links TwitterI had a comment on one of my previous posts asking how to start screenwriting, so I thought that instead of just emailing a one-off reply that would disappear forever into the ether, I ought to just write down everything that I’ve learnt over the last six months and post it up for posterity.
This […]
End of year reviews are normally all Top Tens and Best Ofs, which I tend to find really quite dull, suffering as they do from the effect of recency - the songs you remember as the best from the year have a tendency to be the ones you heard most recently. Instead, I thought I’d […]
If snot were a national currency, I'd be rich beyond my wildest imaginings.
Sadly, it's not.
Still snotty, but now with added laryngitis and a nice phlegmy cough to go with it. I'm not so much coughing up sixpence as the entire GDP of a small South American nation. In notes. That leave paper cuts.
I'm bored of this lurgy now. Will someone please buy it off me? Just give me […]
Whilst I'm at it, can I please just clarify one thing. It's only a minor thing, but it's quite important, I think.
I am not Johnny Depp. This is not Johnny Depp's blog. Please don't email me thinking I am Johnny Depp, because I'm not. I'm the wrong gender, age and nationality, and that's just […]
Secret Santa's gift came today and I am chuffed as a small horse, particularly as I had been worried it would end up in Reading. Me happy bunny! Thank you Ben!
A few weeks ago Stuart from over at Feeling Listless asked me to take part in a retrospective he was putting together for his blog. Never one to turn down a request to write, I happily knocked out some replies to his five questions and sent them over.
Stuart's currently halfway through publishing the various […]
Hope you're all enjoying the festive season! Just snatching a moment or two before another influx of relatives. I've eaten way too much food the last few days, in good festive tradition, and fear I may explode if I'm not careful to eat a bit less today.
Still producing prodigous amounts of snot, but at […]
Go stuff yourself with turkey, eggnog and Chrissy pud and have a wonderful Christmas!
Captain Sassy Pants (note: not Johnny Depp. Not the last time I looked, anyway.)
Mum and I ordered some twenty quid's worth of Muji pens online yesterday afternoon. Last night I got an email saying that my order was ready to be despatched. And this morning - contrary to all assumptions about Christmas post being slow - it arrived in a hand-written jiffy bag complete with little sticker stars. […]
My sinuses feel like they've been forcibly rammed full of mucous, which is now exiting my head through my right nostril only, in big green clots. My nose is burning. My head aches. Everytime I swallow my ears go 'clunk' as if bubbles are popping inside my head. Worse than that, everything tastes of snot. […]
At long last, the shortest day, the beginning of the end of Winter. I look forward to the Winter Solstice every year, to the days starting almost imperceptibly to draw out in the slow run up to Spring. It’s almost like the true new year starts today, rather than hanging about for another week […]
Last night: Quentin Tarantino, sitting in a hairdressers waiting for his appointment. I was asleep in the bed in the waiting room, (fully clothed, though), and when I wake up there he is. He asks me what I do, I mumble something about being a writer and being interested in writing scripts, the hairdresser comes […]
Pass me the weed-killer would you?
It's been sunny and dry for most of the week. Today, of course, the day of my friend Sarah's wedding, the weather is foul. We even had a short powercut this morning, which I suspect was caused by water getting in the works somewhere along the line. I'd been hoping it'd clear up by 11am, […]