Another show over and though not quite the biggest role, the biggest acting job to date - a right gamut of emotions including: "I have great affection for you as an uncle, but your words are making me realise I no longer share your world view & this epiphany provokes some self loathing" (grimacing a bit, hunch rear shoulder, some nostril flaring & ( Read more... )

O.K., I'll admit it, my recent trip to the British Museum included an unexpected revelation. They have on display the Beagnoth, or Battersea, Seax, found in the Thames. It's a piece I've admired in books & I got ridiculously excited seeing it first hand. This is the thing I picture when I think 'sword'.

( Cut for utter anoracking )

A post on 3faithdialogue just got me thinking:
...what questions do you think would help determine if your religion is right for someone or their philosophy in life is in tune with your religion?So I put a list of yes-no q's together, with the aim of starting out as inclusive as possible & narrowing in on my own beliefs. I wonder how close you get ( Read more... )

This is my first draft contribution to Scribbles tsunami relief CD:


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Happily working my behind off at the moment, rehearsing for the latest musical. An 18 month break from them seems to have refreshed my enjoyment of them, as I am having a ball. It does noticeably wear out my creative side for art & writing, though. Busy creating gestures, expressions & business, I guess ( Read more... )

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You Are 24 Years Old

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Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe ( Read more... )

I have just created a new community - phobia_watch, to compile incidents which may disturb sufferers of various phobias in film, TV etc. This will form a database searchable by title or fear (by going to 'memories' and ordering by title ( Read more... )

I have resolved from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

Not a bad thought.

The Royal Institute Lectures this year made a good case that we have one or two decades before we could trigger an unstoppable temperature cascade, up to +10 degrees. And 10 million refugees in India & Bangladesh alone. That's without counting on any wars being triggered by the inevitable scramble for the high land ( Read more... )