Category: life
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We saw the movie “The Brutalist” at the cinema last night. I almost emptied my head into the keyboard when we got home, and I’m glad I didn’t – there was just so much to process about it – the majority of which I can’t really communicate. Where to start? I think it’s a wonderful movie –…
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I just finished watching the movie “Her”. It’s only taken me 12 years and then two sittings to make it through the movie. Better late than never, right? I can’t help feeling that if sometimes things happen for a reason, perhaps the universe made me wait until now – perhaps if I had seen it before, it…
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I went for a walk into town at lunchtime today, purely to escape the house for a little while – to escape the computer, the washing machine, the dishwasher, and the endless rounds of picking up and putting away. Some days it feels like every time I leave the study, there’s another sink full of…
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The clock is ticking towards midnight once more. Katherine Jenkins is quietly singing the flower duet from Lakmé, and I’m wondering about making a final coffee. I remember when Katherine first became famous – back when I was working in London – the year before the children arrived in our lives. I remember the billboards…
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My eldest daughter sat in the junk room with me this evening – at my work desk – and helped me build a LEGO kit I got for Christmas – of “Groot” from Guardians of the Galaxy. I can’t imagine how talented the kit designers are at LEGO – for quite some time we couldn’t…
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After wandering into the living room this evening I caught the second half of the wonderful movie “Free Guy” – where Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer and Joe Keery explore what might happen in a virtual world such as “Second Life”, or “Grand Theft Auto” if the non-player-characters develop sentience through artificial intelligence. A similar theme…
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Welcome to the inaugural meeting of the “Midnight Writing Club”. Unfortunately we only have one member at the moment, so I’ll be acting as chair-person, taking the minutes, making the coffee, and putting the cake on plates that I brought with me. Of course I jest. Or do I? Perhaps this should be a thing…
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The clock will tick past 1am in 4 minutes. I’m sitting in bed, in the dark, tapping away on a laptop – running down the last bit of “awake” I have left. After another morning watching a long-running process on a distant server farm and filling a colossal document with the results of it’s progress,…
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I’ve spent much of the day watching a long running process on a distant server farm slowly report onward progress. It’s been interesting – wanting to find better things to do, but not wanting to look away, should it mysteriously run off the rails as computers tend to when given the chance. While half watching…
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After scraping myself out of bed this morning, and standing rather conspicuously in the middle of the kitchen in my underwear sipping coffee – while waiting for a turn in the shower – I pulled some clothes on, and prepared to set out with the rest of the family for a day in London together.…
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After trying to convince myself that I wanted to live in my own castle for the last several weeks, and after sitting high atop my invented throne, admiring my own handiwork, I had a moment of clarity – or rather the thought “why the hell am I doing this?” An hour later, my blog (the…
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I just got home from a visit to the cinema with my eldest daughter – to watch “Nosferatu” – a new version of the story inspired by Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Although I’ve known of the original movie for years – it’s one of the earliest horror movies – I didn’t know the full story until…
