Tuesday 14 September 2010

Tulips from amsterdam

Here's some of the images I would have seen if I hadn't been editing in a hotel room all weekend.

Wasn't all doom and gloom mind, made some good contacts at the IBC and got to "smoke" without feeling guilty.

Plus our film ( and I quote); "Was one of the best I have seen showcased at the IBC". Appearing on the website soon....so i shall post a link!


Off to Thailand around January time. But before then, its all work and no play.....yey!

Thursday 2 September 2010

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Found this on face book.....felt quite surprised by how many I had read......didn't have to refer to the film adaptations once.....OK maybe once....


The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien x
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (only some of the books /)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible x
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell X
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare x
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger x
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell x
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams x
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame x
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens x
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis x
34 Emma-Jane Austen x
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis x
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres x
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden x
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne x
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown x
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood X
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan x
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck x
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding x
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville x
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens x
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett x
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens x
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White x
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton x
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas x
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl x
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo


Don't lie now......especially if you say you've read number 6...and you haven't.

Wednesday 1 September 2010

Happy as a clam

As the end of festival season draws to a close, i decided to rejoin my friends at reading festival...

this years reading coined a few new phrases:

- as happy as a clam

- I cant sing to dizzie rascal as im not black.

- BBQ

- Liiiiiiiiitttttttttlllllllllleeee lllllliiiiiiiiiiioooooonnnnnn mmmmmaaaaaaannnnnn

- Toliet bowl!

- I like this song it makes me hard

- tony touches kids


A sad moment of this years festival was when I had my sleeping bag swiped from my very eyes.......In order to get a new one i had to morph into a teeny tiny oliver twist and go around the festival picking up emtpy beer cups ( 10p a cup), it was something to tell the grandkids if anything.... I went to such lows that i was fishing the cups out of bins.....it paid off mind as i collected 20 quid worth of cups which made me able to buy the grand total of:

- one sleeping bag

- 3 cups of tea from the salvation army tent

- 1 beer


so in the end it was all worth it, even if my friend was subjected to comments such as "2 girls 20 cups".

And as i listen to edif piaf the words; Non, Je Ne Regrette Rein suddenly pop into my mind. Twas a good festival, I learnt some valueble bissniess lessons.......that cup is mine and ill fight anyone for it.....and made some new friends..... that ill never see again mind. Also I nearly cried during Mumford and Sons set as it was totally amazing....

amsterdam soon!


The happy Campers