So, Friday evening (31st July) was spent in Coventry, watching a performance held by a friend of mine in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral.

Kristina has spent the last several months organising this performance, a stage-rendition lasting just over an hour of scenes from the famous Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame de Paris. This was the practical element of the final year of her degree at Coventry University, and I don’t think she’ll mind me saying she took a while to get the ball rolling, but I commend her for the hard work and sustained effort she has put in over the months leading up to last week’s big day.

My biggest contribution was to produce the website for her production company, In Touch Productions, and gave a little hand in other areas too. Leading up to the performance, we’d spent days checking, and crossing our fingers for, the weather forecast on Friday evening. We were promised cloud, but in a disheartening manner, Mother Nature gifted us said cloud right up until the beginning of the performance, before proverbially raining over the whole thing. When using an outdoor venue, you have to take this factor into account, but you’d be forgiven for thinking it was unlikely in July. Then when the performance ended, so did the rain.

I’ve never seen this kind of public spectacle before. Kristina made full use of the Cathedral area for the various scenes, whilst the audience moved around as the play progressed. I thought this was a unique, neat idea.

To find out about the performance, visit the website at http://www.intouch-productions.co.uk. I thoroughly enjoyed the evening, and congratulations to Kristina and everyone who played a part in the production.

Having finished this book, I had intended to write about it while it remained fresh in my memory. However, such is my nature that I took far longer to plan it than I will probably take to actually write it, and alas, you’re left with what I hope to be a good insight into a wonderful novel, but to promise would be futile.

I’d like to demonstrate my enjoyment of it, but I must warn that if you have any intention of reading it in the near future, you might be better served by not reading any further - my temptation to reveal details has always been too strong to control, and so read it first.

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So, I’m finally getting back into devving resources for the Online Resource Centre I’m working on with Nic. I tend to put off long term work for some reason, despite seeing its value. But having created the website template a relative long time ago, I’m making a solid start on the third lesson in the course: Design Concepts.

I’m snowed under with lots of different work now, not that I’m complaining. I’m on a roll, baby

Currently listening to: Jamie Woon - Wayfaring Stranger (Burial Remix)

… has started today. Here and now. I’m not saying it will be comfortable, nor will it be easy, but with a bit of time, self control, self discipline and thorough thinking, that will slowly change.

I’m currently playing host to something I can’t control. Dexter calls it his Dark Passenger; mine has similarities, but I’m not about to start slashing people up, justified or otherwise. No, I know what mine is, and I’ll justify it with my own biased emotions. It isn’t sinister - it’s more natural than anything else in the world. More natural even than, say, organic fruit. It has been documented and debated, and at least 90% of people walking on the earth right now have had one of their own some day. But I want rid of mine, right now.

Answers on a postcard.

If you don’t watch Prison Break, you would probably be better off leaving right now - this blog will be of little interest to you. If you do, however, read on…

I just watched the two final ever episodes of Prison Break, the end of the fourth season and the end of the show as a whole being marked with a double-header. Wow.

Prison Break has had its ups and downs, but this was possibly the best finale I’ve ever seen - it truly went out with a bang.