Archive for November, 2007

The visit to Scotland has got me thinking about Alan Ramsay again.  Somewhere I’ve got a copy of the painting he did of his dead son.  He was distraught at the news of the child’s death and almost immediately sat down to paint him. A friend reported that while he was working all signs of [...]


Breakfast meeting with Ivan Cutting from Eastern Angles, that became a morning soup meeting, then a baked beans on toast lunch meeting. We covered a good deal of ground looking possible structures for Bentwater Roads. We haven’t worked together like this before. In the past we’ve had a script more or less finalised [...]


I’ve agreed to write a blog for Eastern Angles charting the progress (or lack of it) of Bentwater Roads. Which means I will now have two blogs. Writing Bentwater Roads will run in parallel. This will remain the more general account of my writing activities.


Day one in Edinburgh. The flight left at 6.50 yesterday and we bussed it from the airport, walked to the hotel, and still managed to arrive at the evening milonga early. Too tired to dance well, but a pleasant enough evening all the same. Today we’ve done the art shops and galleries. Came [...]


Apparently I did everything right. It takes 24-48 hours for the website to “propagate”. (The techies at 123-reg have been very helpful, by the way. ) So it looks as if by Monday morning I will have a functioning website after all.


I’ve set up a website for my writing activities. It was uploaded to the host today. The excitement of achieving this technical feat was qualified by the fact you can’t actually see anything but the holding page of the company who sold me the webspace.   I’m waiting for an email telling what I’ve done wrong. [...]


Previous posts

23Nov07

A Call to My Agent
November 20th, 2007
(NB:  a call to my agent, not to be confused with a call from etc etc.)
Lengthy chat with Diana  at MBA about the current state of play. She remains optimistic, despite the dearth of commissions. We are going to talk to producers at BBC Radio in an attempt to [...]