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I love North by Northwest , and I especially love the train journey between New York and Chicago, when Eva Marie Saint explains to Cary Gran...

My parents tell of the misery of bording school in the 50s, where days began with long runs followed by ice-cold baths. Apparently this buil...

Never really been one for musicals – they tend to be low-budget, low-effort opera with all the emotional truth of soft porn. But I’ve seen t...

Christmas was pretty damn top. Silly, giddy mood on Christmas Eve having finally finished a draft of a story at 8,155 words. Needs some poli...

Lunch with the very lovely Sophie Aldred yesterday, again for the thing we will not speak of here. Amongst everything else, we chatted about...

"If burner pressure is low; check inlet pressure to the boiler when maximum flow is being drawn at tap – compare the value obtained wi...

M. appeared on the nose of my easyeverything hours being up. We found good curry (not at all like the review it gets here ) and, nicely stuf...

A busy day today, not helped by the Dr's work Christmas party last night, after which we bumped by chance into my senior brother and for...

While waiting for horrors on BBC4 last night, the Dr and I found Demolition , in which Kevin McCloud scoured the country for ugly buildings ...

Missed this, but Big Finish have put up the blurb for The Settling : Note to Sir Arthur Aston, governor of the town of Drogheda, 10 Septembe...

You've been ink slinging too long and too hard when, like yesterday, you're in fits of delight when the threat of a yellow card is ...

"I don't advocate everyone trying to live like us in roundhouses, but I can see a future in which those people who live in self bui...

I talked ages and ages ago about discovering a thing I'd written back in '99, predicting what'd have to happen in the next two S...

A morning of scawling, and I'm now at 2,216 words. Which is less than at this time yesterday. Hmm. Still, I think they are better words ...

A couple of correspondents beef that I don’t say much about music. This is probably because, when I do, my eclectic “taste” is much-mocked. ...

If there is a god (and He is not a bit bollocks), this beautiful theeng will be the Xmas no. 1. Come buy, come buy. Lovely, lovely Flash. L...

A fun bash in the festive upstairs of a pub last night, with as many of the Christmas lot as could make it. Got to see some people I’ve no...

A load of new work has just come my way, so things are rather fraught. In fact, finding out that my booking for Monday is now cancelled is a...

"The music industry is to extend its copyright war by taking legal action against websites offering unlicensed song scores and lyrics [...

Overheard this yesterday, from the noble Lord, Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, and immediately added it to my Christmas list. ("If I ...