Every now and then comes a heartening good news story whether it is one of those homeless people who help a passerby only to end up the centre of a massive fundraising operation or the story I wrote about last year about a man who was about to commit suicide only to be talked out… Continue reading Charity begins at home but is it now big business?
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Writing For Television – My first TV script from 1996!
Yesterday whilst looking for something else on the internet, I came across a 20 year-old website that I had created. It’s no longer live but had been archived away somewhere and I was amazed to find my very first television manuscript on the site. This was rather fortuitous as the original files are on computers… Continue reading Writing For Television – My first TV script from 1996!
A weekend in Ghent
I spent the last 3 days in the Belgium city of Ghent having secured a bargain return trip on the Eurostar from London and taken advantage of near empty hotels almost giving their rooms away. I always love going on the Eurostar and not just because I hate flying. It’s just such fun to go… Continue reading A weekend in Ghent
Not Now Bernard
In the 2.5 years that we have opened our house up on Airbnb, we have had the opportunity to meet a wide range of interesting people that we would never have the chance of meeting in everyday life. From actors to heart surgeons and engineers to spiritualists and people as far away from London as… Continue reading Not Now Bernard
Facebook is changing so Tsu me
I was one of the last people to take to Facebook. I was and am too busy to spend time looking at Selfies and when I communicate with friends I prefer to actually meet them or at least write to them properly and not with a TLC… ok Three Letter Acronym. In fact I really… Continue reading Facebook is changing so Tsu me
Kajaki: A True Story – Movie Review
Until a few weeks ago I thought 2014 was turning out to be pretty weak for films but recently having watched the excellent movies The Imitation Game and Mr Turner I became intrigued by a trailer I had seen detailing a true story from the war in Afghanistan. The events depicted in Kajaki are based… Continue reading Kajaki: A True Story – Movie Review
Doors open and opportunities knock thanks to blogging.
The more enthusiastic of my valuable readers may have noticed that I had one of those very rare occurrences this Saturday when I didn’t make a posting. It’s all been down to a very busy month or so which I thought might be of interest. I know there are lots of people who wonder about… Continue reading Doors open and opportunities knock thanks to blogging.
Why I love Buy Nothing Day and not spending money at Thanksgiving or Christmas
Saturday 29th November is Buy Nothing Day, a day or rather movement that started in the United States in protest of the over-commercialisation of our holidays and life in general. One of my earliest blog posts was on the reversing the commercialisation of holidays, Sundays and Christmas. It is hard to avoid spending money and… Continue reading Why I love Buy Nothing Day and not spending money at Thanksgiving or Christmas
Once you go Mac, you never go back!
There is a saying in the Apple community, that once you go Mac, you never go back. Three weeks ago I went Mac and I thought that I would write a little about my experiences. It was probably the longest switch over in history as I had been slowly but surely dabbling in Apple products… Continue reading Once you go Mac, you never go back!
November is NaNoWriMo month
November is the month that can bring whoops of delight and shudders of fear amongst writers around the globe. It is of course NaNoWrimo or National Novel Writing Month for those not in the know. It is an event that brings hundreds of thousands of writers at all levels or experience and ability and leads… Continue reading November is NaNoWriMo month
Stephen Liddell 