Travelogue news
The last blog news was that I spent a day filming for the travelogue promo video. Since then things have slowed down to an almost complete stop. About a month after the filming was finished I had a message from the filmers saying that they wouldn’t have time to do the...
A jolly day’s filming
Up at 5am today for the grand making of the promotional video for In SatNav We Trust. This has been a long time coming. Last year I pretty much decided to go down the crowd funding route through Kickstarter or Unbound. I’ve yet to decide. So an hour after getting up I...
All sorts of jiggery pokery
So we are inching slowly closer to filming the promo video for In SatNav we Trust. It’s turned into an administrative nightmare so much so that I can’t remember if I already posted a blog to say all this. million In short we need to get a permit to film in Oxford and...
An open letter to Microsoft
I gave Edge a try a few weeks ago and found it wouldn't do many of the things I used to do with IE, Firefox and other browsers. Notably you've taken away the favourites bar which features in every other browser I know. sod Then, after I've decided to look for an...
Is Donald Trump working with Disney?
Is Donald Trump in league with the Disney Corporation? Is Trump more than a buffoon in the mould of modern politicians such as Boris Johnson, or are people like him all just idiots who have climbed to the top by virtue of fart-arsery and rich parents. Is Donald Trump...
Memories of Steve Wilson
Back in the early nineties, when I was too shy to speak up for myself, I had a go at producing a magazine that we called The Philosopher's Stone. Having been to one or two Talking Stick events at the Black Horse in London some years before I had the idea of taking the...
Have they turned Sherlock into Rupert Bear?
The last couple of seasons of Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman seem to have gone a bit awry. It all started to get a bit out of hand when they married off Watson to Mary. So far so good and this all seems to be lifted directly from the original...
R2D2 gives a thumbs up to Rogue One
R2D2 enjoyed his night out to see Rogue One on Thursday night. He’s been looking forward to it for weeks now and has been beeping and whistling about it increasingly over recent days. Before heading off to the pictures we booked a table at Pizza Express in Hatfield...
The Truck is dead, long live The Truck
R2D2 has had the hump for the last couple of weeks. After the excitement of his trip out to see Elstree 1976 in preparation to see Rogue One after Christmas he's been looking forward to getting out a bit more. Unfortunately, a couple of weeks ago, The Truck died and...
Elstree 1976
R2D2 enjoyed his night out tonight at the Ultimate Picture Palace in Oxford. We drove over there to see a showing of Elstree 1976, a documentary about the lives of the actors and extras who were involved in the first Star Wars film in 1976. obscured The film is...
R2D2 is getting excited again
Some of you might remember lasts year's collection of posts about R2D2 looking forward to the first Star Wars film in ten years. He was very pleased to see the film even if he was a little underwhelmed by the new bad guy. He thought putting a pretty boy in a mask that...
New phone day – a new cultural phenomenon?
It's new phone arrival day tomorrow and I've got to go into the office so I won't be home when it arrives. Someone will take it in but I could have planned it better. I'm now wondering if new phone arrival day is a new cultural phenomenon that is beginning to rank up...
Eight years of Conservative rule?
Boris Johnson is no longer Mayor of London. Sadiq Khan has been elected to be Mayor. The Guardian reported it thus: “Sadiq Khan has been elected mayor of London, reclaiming the post for Labour after eight years of Conservative rule and becoming the first Muslim mayor...
Kick-starting In SatNav We Trust
The Barrow Blog has been more than a bit quiet since the R2D2 goes to the movies series at Christmas. R2D2 came with me to get a haircut, came shopping for Christmas pudding, and eventually came out to see the Force Awakens. He had a great time but we were all a...
R2D2 enjoyed his trip out to see The Force Awakens last night.
R2D2 enjoyed his trip out to see #TheForceAwakens last night. We had a drink before we started and and he asked for some popcorn. Unfortunately he can be a little messy with the popcorn so we wouldn't let him eat it inside. But he had a good time and beeped about it...
R2D2 gets ready for The Force Awakens
R2D2 is looking forward to seeing #TheForceAwakens tonight & has been catching up on some of his favourite #StarWars...
R2D2 enjoys his Christmas
R2D2 was a bit pissed off and turned his back on us when he didn't get invited to Christmas dinner (in fact we forgot to take him) but, to be honest, sometimes I get a bit tired of his tantrums. When we got back at 2am he was in the kitchen hiding amongst the washing...
R2D2 finally gets his Christmas pudding
R2D2 refused to come out in the rain again today so I went out to try to find a Christmas pudding for him. Unfortunately Tesco had sold out but a nice lady with a lovely smile had one at the till and it turned out it was the last one. Soon we were arguing over who...
R2D2 has been out Christmas shopping
R2D2 come out to Hemel Hempstead today to the Turkish barbers. He is working his way up to his big trip out to see #TheForceAwakens next week. He was pleased with my nice new haircut and beard trim from Jimmy at No.10 Grooming Room Traditional Turkish Barbers on...
R2D2 is getting out a bit more
Today R2D2 helped me take my shirts to be ironed. However, although he understands how busy everyone is at this time of year, he was a bit dissapointed that they won't be ready before we go to see The Force Awakens on...
R2D2 doesn’t like to go out in the rain
R2D2 is looking forward to going to see The Force Awakens next week. Now he's got the idea he's thinking he'd like to get out a bit more but he's refusing to go out in this...
R2D2 wants to go to the movies
I bought R2D2 about 10 years ago. He's made of old car parts. I'm thinking of taking him to see The Force Awakens. I bought him (it) in the mall from a bloke who made all sorts of sculptures from Alien to Predator, all bits of scap metal. I'm not sure what his body is...
Cartoon
They even set light to your ears
“They even set light to your ears,” said Karl, a friend of mine with a rather natty flat top haircut. Actually those aren’t the specific words Karl used to describe his recent experience with the barbers, but that was the implication. He was describing how the newly...
Steampunkers
I’ve recently linked here from some of my original images on my Pinterest page. I’ve linked them to this blog because I don’t really have anywhere else to send the link so this has become my preferred web presence and something of a portfolio. I’ve developed a bit of...
In the News Today
Users of The Internet were incensed today by a newspaper article that told the truth but was totally made up. The article, attributed to someone with a name that couldn’t possibly exist, told how people were surprised that government policy was turning out to be bad...
In Sat Nav We Trust – a search for meaning to the end of the world
I’ve been working on my Travelogue for a little over two years now, having set off from Oxford on May Morning of 2013. I’m just beginning to contact literary agents, just beginning to get those first rejections back. It’s all part of the process but there is a...
Schrödinger’s Millionaire
“…and there’s your change.” “Cheers.” Taking the change the previous customer took the newspaper and packet of cigarettes and left the shop. A short, thick set, man stepped up to the counter. “Hello Jimmy, what will you have today, the usual?” “Yes please Mrs Patel,...
I’ve upset Douglas Carswell and, it would seem, all of UKIP
Last night I was somewhat surprised to see Douglas Carswell, the only UKIP MP, on Newsnight again commenting on Inheritance Tax; a subject that I don’t really remember UKIP campaigning on in the election. This made me wonder why he was asked to take part in that...
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Back in 2004 I remember seeing Susanna Clarke on TV promoting her book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, a book about two magicians in England at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. I recall that the book was inevitably labelled as Harry Potter for grown-ups, which was...