December 2003

Oh look! A badger with a gun…

December 8, 2003

Can you see?

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You learn something new every day, despite trying very hard not to

December 8, 2003

Today I learnt that no matter how shitty I'm feeling, there's always someone around who'll help make me feel better. I also learnt that I am officially a watje. No, I am. And I'm a big girl's blouse too.

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Dear Father Christmas

December 8, 2003

Anonymous sources have recently alerted me to a somewhat illuminating conversation between a Christmas plaintiff and a representative of Santa Claus Inc., Lapland. The world should know about this disgrace, so I include the entire correspondence here for your elucidation. Names have been changed to protect the guilty. Warning: Language. * *** * Dear Father […]

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You spin me right round, baby, right round

December 7, 2003

The fact that it's taken me a week to get round to writing down my thoughts about Matrix: Revolutions should give you some inkling of how underwhelmed I was by it. Even sitting there at the IMAX, watching it on a huge screen that should make me feel like I'm part of the action, I […]

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The Monmouth Ash

December 7, 2003

Just watched the last episode of Charles II – The Power and the Passion. One thing the BBC does do very well is period drama, and you don't come much more dramatic than the reign of Charles II. The power struggles between the King and the treacherous Buckingham; the conniving and scheming Barbara Villiers; the […]

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Where is everyone?

December 6, 2003

Many of my daily blog reads have gone all quiet. I wonder where everyone is? Christmas shopping I suppose.

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The sound of a house sale about to collapse

December 5, 2003

This time last week, it looked as if the sale of my parents' house was going to go through with no hitches. They say that moving house is one of the most stressful experiences you can go through, after bereavements, losing a job and serious illness, but my Mum was perplexed. “Don’t know what people […]

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Hello people from Peru!

December 4, 2003

I put Nedstat on my blog a couple of weeks ago, just to see if the data it threw up was any different to that provided by Blog-City itself. The hits stats are radically different, but I think that's because it can't pick up on the rss feeds and half my hits are by rss. […]

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Just for a change

December 3, 2003

Get up early. Shower early. Eat breakfast early. Read blogs early. Blog early. Find an hour to work on SP1 that wouldn't otherwise be there. What a plan.

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Er, hang on a minute…

December 2, 2003

I thought small, three year old nieces who are ill with a temperature and croaky voice were supposed to sit quietly on the sofa, snoozing or possibly watching appropriately gentle cartoons, not bouncing up and down on my lap whilst I'm trying to work around them, persistently asking 'Why?' to everything I say whilst plastering […]

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Yay! Proofreading finished!

December 2, 2003

I've just finished proofreading the 42 Welsh worksheets that will go on the new Get Fluent CD-ROM. That's a chore I'm happy to see the back of. All I have to do now is finish preparing the other files I need and it's ready to rock and roll. I will be so glad to get […]

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Begining of the month referrers log amusement

December 2, 2003

I love the fact that this blog comes up as #1 out of 25,800 results on Yahoo for the search phrase “clearly you've never been to Singapore”. Inexplicably, that makes my day.

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Back!

December 1, 2003

Hallo! I'm back. Great weekend. Too many emails in my inbox. More later.

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Films, chit-chat, more films, more chit-chat

December 1, 2003

I feel like I ought to write a big blog entry about my weekend, but somehow my brain's refusing to spit anything out. I had a really good time, mostly spent talking a lot or watching films. We got through Amelie (brilliant, funny, touching), Equilibrium (weak central premise but quite good character development and some […]

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SP1 rewrite now officially underway

December 1, 2003

Back in August I finished the first draft of my first screenplay and posted it up on Zoetrope for review. I got some good reactions and was much encouraged. Having left it to stew for a few months, I dug it out again a couple of weeks ago with the intention of getting stuck right […]

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