Keira has taken to watching old videos on my YouTube channel. “You haven’t uploaded anything new in months,” she complains. It’s curious how trends and moods change. We went through a period in which anything I said or did on this blog (and to a lesser extent photos/video on social media) was vetted with such…
The Art of the Score Podcast Anyone I’ve seen lately who’s expressed even a passing interest in movie music will have had my iPhone shoved into their faces to show them how they can find the Art of the Score podcast. What is it about? To quote their website: “Art of the Score is the podcast…
The combination of school holidays and beginning to write a new book (excite!) has made me a little disoriented. In fact, I had a jolt of surprise when I took a look at the date – how are we almost halfway through July? How will All The Things get done? So to distract myself from…
This isn’t going to be my usual Living List goal after-the-fact recall. They are usually quite long because the experiences typically are, and there’s only so much I can write about a two-hour movie. What I will say is we were a little concerned it was going to happen at all as we drove towards the…
On the 12th May 2018, my grandmother passed away just a month shy of her 91st birthday. Time has sped past so quickly since I’m having trouble keeping up with the days; it’s hard to believe that this time a week ago I was home, helping in what small ways I could with the funeral…
Hello, it’s May, we now have a fourteen-year-old in the house and I don’t think I’ve taken a deep breath in a long time. So writing this post is my way of taking the opportunity to do that. 2018 has been a funny old year, hasn’t it? I feel like I’ve been busy, and I…
“What’s this place?” Riley asked me this question as we arrived and it was hard to give a short answer. I mean, sure, I replied, “It’s an art museum”, but in hindsight that feels reductive and even a little… wrong? Yes, there’s art everywhere. Yes, it has all the things one expects of such places…
You might be familiar with those live atmospheric maps flashed up on our television screens at the weather part of the news, or to illustrate an impending, potentially devastating, event. I think of cyclones or hurricanes and the whirling movement around the eye as the cloud mass moves towards land. That gathering pull is the…
It’s customary for these sorts of posts to come out in December, before the holidays and our emails (and brains) are switched to ‘out of office’ mode. This is understandable – giving yourself a pat on the back at the end of a year is a great way to round it off before looking towards…
