June started with Will Whiting and I travelling to Weymouth to make a film. The plan was to walk back the 40+ miles along the South West Coast Path while making a grungy, black and white, single character comedy. In reality, we walked some of the path and made some […]
Yearly archives: 2021
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We took a taxi to Durlston Country Park and then walked along to Dancing Ledge, before returning to Swanage via Peveril Point. It was a light day of walking after the gruelling day before. Again, we shot lots of footage but not many pictures, so this is a slightly dull […]
The following day we walked from Lulworth Cove to Kingston. We filmed scenes along the way in Kimmeridge and along most of the headland. Carrying the kit was really painful and a dumbass idea in retrospect, but the weather was overcast and cooler than the previous day. Google wants to […]
I’ve decided to document the walks that I take along the South West Coast Path. I figure that I live so near to it, and it is so beautiful, that it would be good to try and walk as much of it as possible. It’s very long, stretching from Dorset […]
The coronavirus pandemic has been a long slog. I think this is the longest that I have stayed in one place for my adult life, with no meaningful travel for work or holidays. Thankfully we live in a wonderful part of the world, but it has certainly been frustrating on […]
Perhaps it is the easing of lockdown, my recent first vaccination shot or the longer days. Either way, I feel positive and glad that this difficult winter is finally behind us. April has been a constructive month. I finished music for Isra and handed it over to Will for the […]
It is a year since this Covid chaos started. Earlier this month I had my vaccine. In some ways the time has gone slow, in other ways incredibly quickly. It is strange indeed. This month I managed to finish the music for Isra, which we had started a year ago. […]
I turned 40 earlier this month. Not much to report, due to the fact that we’re still in lock down. I received some lovely presents and then got on with marking a mountain of work. Finally I got through around 200 assignments by the middle of the month. Perhaps the […]
I have always found that I cope better with small incremental steps to achieving a large goal rather than some overwhelming ambition that can never seem to be reached. In lockdown this steps to have been my coping strategy with the weirdness of the world. I have identified a few […]