The Solomon Grundys

Added on 13 November 2008

Do you ever watch a documentary on tv about some sort of weird lifeform somewhere on the planet and say to your partner, you know Agnes, evolution just doesn’t cover that...? Apes to men is one thing, that seems straightforward enough. But a giant flower that sucks beetles inside it by releasi...

Alien v Predator 3 meets The Wombles

Added on 12 November 2008

Received an e-mail from my agent yesterday. That probably sounds like the kind of thing that writers get all the time. I usually have to struggle for mine. I share an agent with the writers of such films as Mrs Brown, The Full Monty, Billy Elliot and In Bruges. On the one hand this allows me to say ...

Can You Hear The Drums?

Added on 11 November 2008

More time off school. How we all cheered when we realised. Today is Poland’s national day, dating from when the country became an independent nation again at the end of the Great War. So everything is shut, including the schools. Why was the school shut yesterday? Not sure. Think that was just...

The Man With No Feet

Added on 10 November 2008

A few weeks ago I wrote about the possibility of performing a one-man show at the Edinburgh Fringe next year. Since then I don’t think I’ve given it a second’s thought. It was as if writing about it purged the idea from me, that as I wrote I was subconsciously thinking, Holy crap! ...

Bond. James Bond.

Added on 08 November 2008

The first day of a four day weekend at the school. It’s fair enough. They need the break. That’s five days of school they’ve had now since their last week off, so it’s reasonable that they need the time to recuperate. After this it’s a clear unbroken five week run up to...