My 900th blog post. Officially a lot of shite, spanning over twenty years of creative projects. I think blogging went out of fashion twenty years ago, so it’s a hopeless endeavour with little purpose. I consider it an example of sunken cost fallacy, but I still prefer it to the […]
Reflections
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It was 2019 when I last went to Les Contamines. One year later it was one of the first places that the Covid outbreak arrived in Europe. I wasn’t sure if I would get an opportunity to go back. I wasn’t sure if I was still capable of skiing having […]
In recent years it seems like the world is in some kind of permanent mardy-bum space where everything has been gobbled up by someone else (insert your nemesis ‘other’ here) and the future is bleak. I find it a bit boring after a while and devoid of hope or encouragement, […]
I was upset to hear about the death of John Tighe this week. John was the landlord of The Spotted Dog in Birmingham. He had supported me on many occasions with my filmmaking. We shot The Confusion of Tongues there, we hosted Ted Hope & Christine Vachon there, we even […]
Bee and I spent escaped the winter and spent six weeks in Agadir. The plan was to enjoy heat and light, which are in short supply in England at this time of year. Agadir probably doesn’t warrant a six-week stay, unless you were using it as a base to do […]
After the brutal end to 2023, I didn’t have many aspirations for 2024 beyond it being kinder to my family. Thankfully it was a gentle, somewhat nondescript year, which is just what we needed. I reduced my hours at work, which was a welcome milestone, and Bee and I are […]
It was my first Father’s Day since Dad passed away, so I decided to commemorate his awesomeness by raising some money for Cancer Research. Thanks to lots of excellent people, we managed to raise over £500, which I think Dad would be very proud of. Nic, Simon and Bowie came […]
Today the news announced that Ewen MacIntosh passed away. We worked together on The Confusion of Tongues and I’d echo what others have said about him. He was kind, funny, and so professional. Knew all his lines, committed to the cause when we were shooting the film, and was a […]
Bee and I decided that we needed a positive start to 2024 after such an awful end to 2023. We decided to spend January in Marrakech. We booked a riad in the Medina and stayed for just under three weeks. It gave us a chance to explore the souk and […]