Weekend project: A gang of pot heads…
…has started hanging out around in my back garden, much to the delight of my toddler son.
You will need: Enamel paints, clean plastic pots, compost and small things that grow. Tree stumps optional.
Inspiration for this one came from The Dad Manual (an ace book which I’m slightly ashamed to confess I bought for myself. Full [...]
Found Nemo
My son found him today in the aquarium at the Horniman and he hasn’t even seen the film.
Geek is good!
My big sister didn’t know I had a blog. She does now:
Swiftly followed by:
And look, she’s using Tweetdeck! Go sis! (And hello, if you’re reading this).
I’m living in a box
I’m living in a cardboard box.
This is just some of the evidence of a weekend well spent. I also managed to plan my veg garden for 2009, more about which later this week.
Three important links
I imagine one or two other things may have been published on the interpipes recently but none more important than these:
Miniaturists: more reports form the fringe – The West End Whingers review my wife’s short play and single her out for a special mention:
Thankfully the Whingers enjoyed practically all of it but special mention goes [...]
Happy birthday Dylan!
Yesterday was my son Dylan’s first birthday.
He had a fun birthday weekend including this trip to Norbury Park swings and visits from all his grandparents. If you like, you can see more pictures of Dylan on my Flickr and Facebook albums. Daddy has also bought a Flip camera, full of regrets that there’s no footage [...]
It’s my birthday
I am 32 today.
I note with horror that I share my birthday with Guy Ritchie, he of god-awful films about made up London gangsters.
Mrs Neil on Radio 4 this Saturday
Obviously I think she’s choice all year round, but the Radio Times has picked my wife’s play as “Radio Choice” this Saturday (2.30pm).
It’s the latest in a series of dramatisations of non-Poirot/Marple Agatha Christie novels for Radio 4, this one being Endless Night (this link contains spoilers).
The RT says:
“If it’s a drama based upon an [...]
Hello, I'm Neil Williams. I'm a government web geek, a dad, a husband, a grower of veg, a keeper of hens and a lapsed comedy writer, roughly in that order. 
