Feb
02
Sitting on the train yesterday, on my way to rehearsals, a man in a bright green suit reading a book entitled ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Kaballah’ suddenly stood up, crossed the aisle, sat down next to me, lent across the table and said, “May I tell you about the most important thing you’ll ever hear?” …
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Jan
26
It’s been a few days since I blogged, and the reason is that my hand, currently looks like this: It is not, I hasten to add, a life-threatening injury! There’s nothing broken, nothing bleeding, no bits are going to fall off. All I have are some rather bruised knuckles, and an impressive swollen thumb – …
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Jan
16
Ronald Searle died a few weeks ago, and this is a brief blog entry to commemorate the fact. For those who don’t know, he was an artist, most famous for the Molesworth books and St. Trinians – he also drew a series of very famous images from his time as a Japanese POW during the …
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Jan
14
Argh!! Hate ‘em! Hate ‘em hate ‘em hate ‘em! I hate the automated voice that goes ‘Hi there!’ and the way it announces, ‘right, I’m just waiting for that…’ as if it’s anything other than a binary algorithm designed to weed out that percentage of the population with a high blood pressure and dubious coronary …
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Jan
04
I saw a film a few days ago, which ended with these words: “Please use your liberty, to help promote ours.” It’s a quote from Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the Burmese National Democratic Party and the film was, appropriately enough, a biography of a large part of her life. I went to …
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Jan
01
Well, another year, another solar cycle… welcome to 2012! Looking back on 2011, it hasn’t been all bad… there’s been a lot of lighting, some of it from quite wacky positions on quite unexpected jobs… there’s also been a lot of writing. The Minority Council is finished and ready to go, Urban Magic 5 is …
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Dec
25
Another year, another Crimble… more food, hopefully more presents, with any luck a bit of snow. Absolutely failing to watch the Queen’s speech (and who can blame us) but definitely watching Dr Who or else Christmas is really rather ruined. Hopefully some Wallace and Grommit to see us through, and maybe a walk on Boxing …
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Dec
07
Can someone explain spam to me? No, but really? What is the point of it? Why? I understand computer fraud, and get quite excited now whenever I receive an email inviting me to change my security details by putting in my username and password, or asking me if I’ve considered the benefits of CASH CASH …
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Dec
01
While I try to avoid more than one political diatribe a week, it would be a bit daft not to mention the UK’s strike, which happened yesterday. It was, for anyone not aware, a protest across a large number of public-sector unions against pay cuts, redundancies, pension cuts etc. and as if anyone could have …
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Nov
27
As regular readers of this blog will know, I occasionally get angry about things our government are doing. In fact, over the years, as I’ve become generally more aware of the politics of the UK, I’ve been getting ever angrier. Angry about the BNP, for example; angry about the invasion of Iraq, about our education …
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