by admin | Feb 2, 2019 | Daily News, Top Stories, Uncategorized
Pinocchio had Jiminy Cricket to act as his conscience. I have a teenage girl and a little shoeless boy, as mine. It started with a call to the office from one of our ambulance service contacts: A teenage girl has fallen 13 floors from the stairwell in the tower block...
by admin | Oct 12, 2018 | Daily News, Mad Life Stuff, Main Page, On TV
I was probably 13-14 years old and about to go through the same old Sunday night ritual, fighting my father about what time I had to go to bed. As the eldest of five, I was always last up, but Dad had a nominal 9.30pm cutoff time assigned to me. This was a nuisance...
by admin | May 7, 2018 | Main Page, Uncategorized
There’s a photo on my wall of me playing Lady Madonna on an upright piano. Standing next to me, playing along on a specially made double bass with frets, is Jeff Lynne from ELO. We are in his house in LA. We had just spent an interesting evening talking in depth about...
by admin | May 3, 2018 | On Creativity, On Writing
When I set up my indie production company magnificent! back in 2002, I was looking for a name that people would remember. Something that spoke volumes about us but also had some cheek built-in. After looking through various dictionaries, I came across magnificent....
by admin | Aug 2, 2017 | Off Topic
I spent a couple of days in my daughter’s school recently making a film. It was a very interesting thing to do. The teachers are great but I was struck again, after a lifetime of learning, how haphazardly effective learning techniques are taught. Nothing to do...
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