Update time… Nails I have fingernails. Real, actual fingernails. I’m so happy with myself right now. Even with a very stressful week last week, I’ve managed to stick to my guns and keep away from the biting. The skin around my thumb nails remains a little bit of a problem as I keep picking at […]
Read more "Habit Breaking Update #2"Horsell Common I finally finished the audiobook version of this, read by David Tennant. I have to say that I was amazed at this book from start to finish. It has been a while since I have read any 19th Century literature and I was unprepared for just how action-packed this story is. Really, I […]
Read more "Tonight’s Reading – The War of the Worlds"Hi there, We had the light fitting removed in the boy’s room and it left this nasty hole which looked like a face. He quite likes it but I think it’s hideous. It reminded me of times when I was young and I would see faces in patterned curtains if I looked at them for […]
Read more "Face in the Ceiling – a poem"Hi everyone, I was thinking about my leadership style the other day and wondering who my role models were. Obviously, there are the ones who exist in real life. On top of them, however, are those who lurk in the recesses of my brain; filled as it is with pop culture references. I listed all […]
Read more "Great Leadership Advice from Outer Space"Hi everyone, Since Friday, I have been trying hard with my challenge and I have some updates. Nails Wow, this is hard!!! I find myself doing it so much without even knowing it. All of a sudden I just find myself chewing. I’m going to have to try gloves at some point if it doesn’t […]
Read more "Habit Breaking Update #1"Hi everyone, This really has been a great conference that I’ve been attending this week down in Sandbanks. Lots of the sessions have had things that are relevant to me both on a professional and a personal level, and it’s one of these things that I’m now going to try to enlist your help with. […]
Read more "Habit Breaking Challenge – Help Needed"Some one asked me today if I was doing any more haikus. I was suddenly inspired and here are four of them. I’ve been learning about resilience over the past couple of days at a conference so that’s what this little sequence explores. Hope you enjoy it. Vast waves beat the shore Seconds, minutes, hours […]
Read more "Waves Beat Down – a poem"Hi everyone, After a long time spent casting, organising props, costumes, locations and everything else that goes into making an independent film, there has been a lot of movement in the past couple of months on my good friend Cameron’s long-awaited Twin Peaks fan film. The filming of Queen of Hearts is well underway and, […]
Read more "Queen of Hearts update November 2019"After the exceptional penultimate episode of Project Blue Book’s first season, I was expecting great things from this finale. Indeed, it makes a very strong start with Aidan Gillen’s Professor Hynek racing against time to get to the Washington Monument. The setting itself harks back to 1951’s The Day the Earth Stood Still; the pace […]
Read more "Project Blue Book – Season 1: Episode 10 Review"I was interested to see this, primarily to see Timothee Chalamet in a role closer to what he has taken on in Denis Vielleneuve’s Dune. Having only seen him in Lady Bird and Call Me By Your Name, I was wondering how he would cope in a film with a much larger scale. I shouldn’t […]
Read more "Tonight’s Viewing – The King"Books, games, music, and life — filtered through the mind of a writer, drummer, and philosopher who thinks too deeply about all of it. If it moves something in your chest, I'm interested.
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