Alas, I went to Montreal before I owned a camera, so this is going to have to be done the ol’ fashioned way… are you sitting comfortably? The gentleman in my life was invited to attend a conference in Montreal for a few days in 2006, the year of the World Cup, and quickly decided …
Monthly Archive: September 2009
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Sep
29
Inns of Court pt.2
It has been pointed out to me that there are actually 4 Inns of Court – Middle, Inner, Lincoln and Greys. However, in my defence, I’d like to point out that Inner is inside Middle, or possibly Middle is inside Inner, or maybe they are both in Temple – oh yes, there’s a Temple, but …
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Sep
26
Inns of Court
… or, ‘guess which BBC Victorian drama was filmed here…?’ There’s a lot to say about the Inns of Court – for a start, there are three of them; Greys Inn, Lincolns Inn and Middle Temple Inn – and they’re extremely old and have a reasonably exciting history. So I’m not going to really say …
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Sep
22
Vaclav Havel
I was asked, a few months ago, to say what name went with ‘Havel’ in a ‘guess that playwright’ game, and automatically said Vaclav. It took me a while to figure out why I’d said this – was it some vague hangover from GCSE history, or a lingering half-memory of ‘The Cold War Endgame’, that …
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Sep
20
Urban Magic 3
So, I haven’t even really got going in talking about Urban Magic 2 – the Midnight Mayor – but feel that, since this is my blog and it is related to all things Urban Magicy, I would share the happy and joyous news that the contract to write Urban Magic 3, is currently sitting on …
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Sep
19
Henry Mayhew
So, when not writing the adventures of Matthew Swift as Kate Griffin, I write children’s books – the adventures of Horatio Lyle – as Catherine Webb. (Which you may or may not enjoy, I dunno…?) These are stories set in Victorian London about a part-time detective and his unlikely mates, but the real point of …
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Sep
18
What Makes a Good…?
I have been sat for the last few days in various team-building classes designed to make me and my colleagues better techies. And while all have been fun, and some have been very productive, I have kinda left them feeling a tad ambivalent. A good techie, we have been told, is patient, communicates calmly and …
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Sep
16
Production Electrician
So, I’ve been given my next job at RADA for the glorious new term – Production Electrician, also known as Prod LX. Which is, lets face it, kinda cool, because I really, really like lights. I even have time for hazers when they’re not leaking. (There is nothing quite as icky as a leaky hazer. …
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Sep
14
Traffic Wardens
Is there any creature more universally loathed in the mythology of all big cities than a traffic warden? I kinda doubt it. On the moving-in and moving-out days at my first hall of residence, the traffic wardens of Islington seemed to have some magical power that led them to zoom in without fail, dozens at …
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Sep
12
The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker – a film that I did not see with my Dad! Did not see with Dad because it’s neither science fiction nor appropriately silly, nor, in fact, to be perfectly honest, my cup of tea. What it is is an utterly captivating, terrifying, gut-wrenching, violent, blood-soaked, testosterone-fuelled war movie that I only …
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