Gum For The New Generation

Added on 15 January 2009

Today Douglas Lindsay is writing this year's cime comedy blockbuster, The Final Cut. This blog first appeared in his Letter From Belgrade on 18th March 2005: You know those episodes of Winnie the Pooh, when one of the seasons arrives in the Hundred Acre Wood? There's always a defining day, as if the...

The Final Cut Continues

Added on 14 January 2009

Work on The Final Cut continues. At the moment the manuscript is in that bit of a mess stage. It doesn’t all tie up. As you go through and make changes and rewrite scenes and characters, you don’t automatically go back over the the whole and get it to tie up there and then, in line with ...

Who Ate All The McDonuts?

Added on 13 January 2009

Douglas Lindsay is still writing the seventh book in the Barney Thomson triology, The Final Cut. The following first appeared in his Letter From Belgrade on 28th February 2004: Had this brief exchange with my three year old last week: Him: I love you, Dad. Me: That's nice. I love you too. Him: When ...

When They're Passing Round The Coffee And The Pumpkin Pie...

Added on 12 January 2009

Today Douglas Lindsay is writing the seventh book in the Barney Thomson triology, The Final Cut. The following first appeared in his Letter From Belgrade on 16th October 2003: "There's a happy feeling nothing in the world can buy, when they're passing round the coffee and the pumpkin pie...&quo...

A Question of Logic

Added on 09 January 2009

The following first appeared in Douglas Lindsay's Kids, And Why You Shouldn't Eat More Than One For Breakfast on 8th November 2006: Another morning, another breakfast squabble. Jack Johnson has grown tired and old, the wheels have come off the smooth routine. The kids bickered pointlessly, somehow T...