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 […]
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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 […]
I’m never sure whether the year ending with 0 is the end of the decade or the start of the next. I remember the millennium, when we were partying in 1999 and then people said the millennium did not technically end until New Year in 2000. So I guess this […]
The online teaching has been a pleasure and a grind in equal measure. In some ways I am grateful for the opportunity to reevaluate my teaching, yet I also know that it did not need a global pandemic to reevaluate it. I have been taking whatever chance I can get […]
Another month with Covid restrictions and more to come it seems. For some reason a difficult year seems to get worse when the days get shorter and wetter. But here we are. I am fortunate enough to still be employed and in good health, so I should not complain. The […]