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It comes before a fall

January 7, 2012

“I’m putting together a landing page for my website and would like a photograph of me to sit behind it. I was wondering if you’d be up for taking/making it? I have a vague notion of walking down a track through a mist-filled woods, wrapped up in a big coat. But that might just be [...]

How was your 2011?

December 31, 2011

I said last year that 2011 was going to be a “game changer.” Yup, I actually used “game changer” in public. In my defence, either I used it ironically or I said it before it was a cliché. Ahem. Has 2011 lived up to its hackneyed description? Let’s have a look at some of the most significant events [...]

The most wonderful time of the year

December 24, 2011

I’m a big fan of Christmas. Not just because I take two weeks off work! I love preparing for the Christmas episode of the podcast (the version of A Christmas Carol in this year’s is getting rave reviews!), spending time at home as well as travelling through the dark to visit friends and family. This [...]

The writing on the quilt

September 11, 2011

Whenever I visit my Mum and Dad, I’m usually presented with an assortment of possessions I’ve never got round to removing in the years since I left. I visited Mum yesterday and amongst the obligatory pile was a sort of paper-based quilt, apparently showing the story of my life thus far. Among the holidays and [...]

Old Skool

August 30, 2011

At the weekend I met up with some of my best friends from school. It’s almost twenty years since we all ended up in the same secondary, and geography, life and careers mean that we don’t see as much of each other as we would like. But it’s a lot of fun when we do [...]