I mentioned this before, the cashiers in both Sainsbury’s and M&S, actually, probably in all UK supermarkets, are a joy. And they often make me leave their supermarket with a big grin on my face.
Today the nice boy in the Sainsbury’s (in Victoria St, if you want to look him up) asked me how [...]

Men on the loose
Taken on a Saturday morning in front of Westminster Cathedral, London.
Here is one for you: Who are they and where are they going? (click on thumbnail for larger version)
[Short script is done, but Davy wants me to write a couple of pages on the 90 page feature script too, so I [...]

Piccadilly in better weather

I have this uncontrollable urge to patch a dog when I see one. I saw one this morning, it was my neighbour’s dog. I had never met him nor his dog before, but his dog was too cute not to patch. He was an older man, grey hair, a kind of older [...]

Single track road

Definitely, undeniably. And we all know who the one true master of voice is, but being in the sound studio yesterday confirmed one more time that hearing a good voice does make my ears jump. I also found out that it doesn’t really matter what a voice is saying, nor if it is [...]

Dinosaurs in London
I was out on another film shoot today in Purley. The weather was wonderful, blue sky, white clouds, lots of trains, orange vests, white helmets and good company. And no I am not tired of them yet. It was a short shoot, nothing special, but it was a first shoot on my own. [...]

Or - a day in the life of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.
Nearly exactly one year after It’s not too late (which has been seen a shocking 14786 times!), comes installment number two. And it’s even worse.
(Warning : strong language)

All you need is love …
I think this is one of my favourite photographs, and I have the feeling it will be for quite a while too.
Taken today on Trafalgar Square.

Horse power

More reliable …
There were four of them, all in their Metropolitan Police uniform, all standing in a rather quiet and dodgy area of Notting Hill. 3 women and one man and they all stared at their car. More particularly they stared helplessly at the motor of their silver coloured police car, wondering why it [...]

Insanity

I have been a month in my new job today.
I still have to a lot to learn but they haven’t fired me yet so I guess things are OK. Forrr now-uh.

Pirates invading London

They are coming to get me.
What’s in here: books, Oxfam, writing, reading, and being late for dinner.

It all started with a train trip on (recent) memory lane. I stepped into my Caterham train this morning, passing Thornton Heath and East Croydon (winking at my old office) and stepping out in Purley. It was nice.

Train spotting in Longsight

Manchester is a great place to be. If you love rain. Which of course I’ve always said I did. It does get a bit annoying though when you have to stand out in the rain for a couple of hours.
Just to let you know how exiting it is to be involved [...]

I will step on the train to Manchester in a bit. I won’t be able to update here until late tomorrow. But will be updating Jaiku with (mobile phone) pictures and short notes while experiencing my first film shoot.

Today it is exactly 2 years ago I saw it. It might sound silly to you to actually remember that date but it will always be an important date to me. The film set me thinking and lots has happened after that.
When I read last years post on this exact day I was amused. I [...]

A spot of bother

A spot of bother
After a long talk with Davy (yes he is still my editor) I decided to remove yesterday’s post. People were starting to read things in it that weren’t there when I wrote it, which must mean that it was badly written.
I removed it because the post was on it’s [...]

Lawless Heart

Lawless Heart
As a the first one in a series of 4 films with him in it. (Send it if you like). The same film has also been inspiration for a pathetic poem with the same title I wrote a while ago. I quite like the term.

You meet this nice street cleaner who asks you how you are while passing him. Good, thank you, and you?
Your busdrive to work passes The Royal Albert Hall, Kensington park, Hyde Park and Knightbridge.
You like the book you are reading.
The sun shines when you decide to go for lunch.
You work only a few hundred meters [...]

You’ve seen POTC 10 times in the cinema? (That’s 1680 minutes of Pirate pleasure …)
Post silly postcards of Bill Nighy?
Yeah, also then.
But.
You know you’ve lost it when it’s gone.
When you are standing at the counter in Sainsbury’s and you want to pay for your groceries. And you pick up your wallet and start looking [...]

It’s amazing. We were 7 people, all around my age (17) and we were all so nervous for this exam, it was like being back at high school again. We all passed. I am relieved, because it was tougher than I thought, it was all new for me and it is all so different from [...]

Rail track

I won’t bore you with too many details about this course, but a short report from the first day of my track safety course.