Monthly book and film lists

It was time to go back to work after a summer of travelling and relaxing. In fairness I was excited by the prospect of going back, as we’ve made some tweaks to the course and it will be interesting to see how it progresses. I’m less excited about the physical […]

The majority of August was extremely hot, so it seemed appropriate after the jaunt around Europe to rest. I visited Galway with Mum for an extended weekend, otherwise it was about getting back into a rhythm of hobbies and pastimes having left them drift for a couple of months. I […]

This month was something different. At the very start of the month I finished work and immediately went travelling around Europe. I had interrailled in 2000, but had lots of places that I still wanted to go, so I took the opportunity to see some of them this summer. Eventually […]

As predicted last month, there were huge breaks to the usual rhythm this month. My step-mum finally moved house, so there was that adventure followed quickly of the adventure of unpacking, which still isn’t complete. Still, the stress of unpacking is nowhere near as much as the stress of house-selling, […]

The month had its ups and downs. The downs are fairly mundane and not really worth sharing. Some good highlights include: my step-mum has been trying to move house for almost a year and it has finally gone through after a really bumpy exchange, I worked on a collaboration between […]

This time of year cheers me up when it stays dry. The longer days, but also the colour. I find it fascinating how it literally changes from one day to the next. This time last year was professionally uncertain. This year it is personally uncertain, but generally I think the […]

It was a mad March. Lots of stress at the beginning of the month as my students got through 12 short films in just over 2 days. That was exciting but also overwhelming, especially as it involved set building and some other logistical challenges. They performed well though, so I […]

A strange month. I am still getting used to a new work regimen, because of returning to full time academia but also a 15 month postgraduate calendar rather than a 12 month undergraduate one. I would normally be at the start of a new semester at this point rather than […]

I’m determined not to discuss the weather, because it is so stereotypically British. Just gonna say that I am sick of the mono-cloud wetness that lasts for weeks. Let’s make a distinction between talking about weather and climate. At the moment, the climate is so hideously bad that the infrastructure […]