Car, 12, found dead after engine failure
Posted on 13 October 2009 at 19:02 |
Category: Personal
A 12-year old car has been found dead at the scene of an engine failure in Worcestershire, today.
Simply looking marvellous
Posted on 27 September 2009 at 10:09 |
Category: Business
At the end of August, Nic and I enlisted the help of Craig Ross for the Simply Associates photoshoot, the purpose of which was to get photos for the new website and marketing materials. But also, Nic and I both needed photos for our own other things. We popped into central Birmingham early one Sunday morning (Nic and Craig earlier than I, in fact) and dotted ourselves around taking pictures in all manner of serious and happy looking poses. After three or four hours, and around 300 photographs later, we got what we needed. You can see the results on Nic’s Flickr set.
When the hard work pays off
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.
Lolita - a review
Posted on 1 July 2009 at 14:57 |
Category: Personal
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.
