The ridiculous Internet campaign to get an outdated Rage Against The Machine track to the Christmas no.1 spot in the UK ahead of limp offering from the winner of a TV talent show has made me really stop and think about how little music means to me these days. There used to be a time […]
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Why Photography and Writing are natural bedfellows
You hopefully won’t be surprised to learn that as well as writing, I like to indulge my creativity with a spot of photography. I took the photo on the left last night, from a spot outside County Hall (this was before I got moved by security since, for some odd reason, you’re not allowed to […]
Happy birthday to…
…Jane Austen! The lovely lady of literature would have been 234 today. My personal favourite of her works is, unsurprisingly, Pride and Prejudice, since Elizabeth Bennett is by far one of the greatest heroines of English literature. I do also like Northanger Abbey as well though; Catherine is a fine heroine. The only one I’ve […]
Reasons why I write; Why…?
So I’m sitting at my laptop, chatting on MSN and mulling over a couple of story ideas, when I suddenly realise I can’t see properly out of the left lens of my spectacles. I take them off to find that a thumbprint has spontaneously appeared on the glass. It’s not my thumbprint as I’m not […]
Paranormal Activity
After much hype in the press, I finally went to see Paranormal Activity today. I’d heard mixed reviews in the UK, but I have to say that despite its tediously slow start, I actually enjoyed it. By the end of the film, I was aware that my heart was attempting to crawl up into my […]
Feeling Fear, aka Procrastination
I originally composed this entry while sat in a coffee shop just off Piccadilly Circus one rainy Monday evening. Yes, I wrote it with a purple fineliner, by hand, in a ringbound shorthand notebook. What can I say, it satisfies my inner Luddite. The purple ink was for my inner drag queen. Anyway, I follow […]
