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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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


Embedding digital media: lessons from my father-in-law

My dad-in-law Geoff got a digital camera for his birthday last week. He didn’t ask for it. He probably didn’t want it. He does now. Having resisted all suggestions to ‘go digital’ for years, I’m pretty sure Geoff would happily have gone on with his 36 frames, 35 millimetres and 24-hour wait for a lucky [...]