Miscellany 2004

What’s Your Pointless Obsession?

December 9, 2004

What’s your pointless obsession? It’s got to be pointless and yet take up lots of time that really you would be better spent working in a soup kitchen or raking the leaves. Mine is PIM (and I am not talking about the drink).

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I Found Some Of Your Life

November 27, 2004

Interesting site with somebody’s photographs.

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Thanksgiving 2004

November 26, 2004

Happy thanksgiving to those passing by.

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Another Grid Lock

November 20, 2004

Traffic From Hell would make a great name for a TV show. Have they already done that?

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Grid Lock

November 14, 2004

Traffic hell on the way home from a nice weekend on the south coast.

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More Producing

November 10, 2004

I suspect I may be a lone voice in expressing a little (and just a little) disappointment.

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The Whispering Years

November 1, 2004

It’s not dull or bland in anyway but, perhaps because there’s a little of the 60s hippy left in Bob Harris, you feel the measured approach is entirely appropriate.

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The Producers

October 30, 2004

The fact that it is one of the better shows on the West End right now possibly says more about the other shows.

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A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To The Forum

October 29, 2004

You feel yourself pulled along by the way the cast at The National seem to be enjoying themselves.

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Lucky Man: A Memoir

October 23, 2004

An absorbing and very well-written book that proves that people in the public eye and just like the rest of us.

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Wet London 20

October 20, 2004

Back now from my holiday and it seems that London has been wet while I have been away!

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21 Dog Years: Doing Time At Amazon.Com

October 20, 2004

Daisey’s book is flagged as a comic tale but it takes a while for the comedy to warm-up. In fact, it’s only towards the end that I felt there were some laugh-out-loud moments but don’t let that put you off. ’21 Dogs Years’ in well written and compelling.

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BBC4 Should Broaden Its Appeal

October 14, 2004

You dream of something good and I dream of BBC Television idents. I also remember children’s TV and want to impact the US elections. It’s an odd train of thought today.

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