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...

Depression Over Warsaw

Added on 07 November 2008

I used to do school shows when I was a teenager. The latent thespian gene. Played Peter Duncan in a Blue Peter sketch once. My friend and I wrote it, and thought it was pretty good, but I remember the teachers in charge more or less rewriting every line, while still telling us it was true to the ori...

Romance And The Lonely Barber

Added on 06 November 2008

Should Barney Thomson get involved in ro-mance? There’s the question for The Final Cut. In the original draft of the book, the draft that was translated into German, he has a thing with the police sergeant investigating the crime. A female police sergeant, I should add, for clarity. It’s...