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General

A-Z music list, podcasts and 1 film a day

For quite a long time now (I think I started in 2006) I’ve been trying to listen through my entire music collection in alphabetic order – I realised that I’d not actually listened to most of the music in my collection (which built up rather quickly over a very short period of time), and the …

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A Brief Holiday Blog

Thanks to a very much welcome weekend away, I wasn’t able to update my blog on Friday or Sunday. As such, I’m throwing this one onto the site just to keep me ticking along and also to ensure I don’t miss a week – once that happens it all falls apart as I discovered in …

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Taking it one movie a day at a time…

I’ve set myself a bit of a challenge this year, and I hadn’t even planned it (some might argue these are the best challenges to set yourself). Rather inadvertently, as of this moment I’ve managed to watch 47 films in 2012 alone – that’s just short of one movie per day, and does not as …

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All it takes is a little bit of snow…

Sometimes it’s fun living in the UK – we obsess over the weather for most of the year, but it’s particularly bad when the snow is apparently on the way. The supermarkets receive a sudden surge in footfall as shoppers strip the shelves bare of bread, milk and other “essentials”, like a plague of disgruntled …

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January – Progress!

As this will probably be my last blog of the month, I thought it might be best to recap what’s gone on in the last 4 weeks and the progress that Random Stoat has made. Compared to previous years we’ve had a pretty good month, all told. The main project throughout January has been a …

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Writing in January – Trent Samuels and other projects

For some people January is the month where they pull out the exercise gear or decide that these cold, dark winter months is exactly the right time to stalk the roads of Britain wearing shorts and an ever so slightly reflective jacket that an oncoming vehicle will only see mere seconds before running you into …

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Netflix Launches in the UK

I’m a subscriber to Lovefilm, and I rather like the postal service they offer – I’m currently on the highest package, receiving 4 discs at a time and a mixture of TV, movies and video games. I’ve tried their streaming service before (only films included in the package I’m on, naturally – £2.49 or £3.49 …

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Writing, Inspiration and the Writers Yearbook

I’m running slightly behind the times, but I’ve recently received the 2012 edition of the Writer’s and Artist’s Yearbook. I’ve previously owned the 2009 and 2011 editions and with the best intentions had planned to use them after writing a fantastic novel, a batch of short stories and an array of short films and audio …

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The Transformers movie trilogy and the wacky adventures of their human companions

When they first announced, those many years ago, that they were going to make a live action Transformers film, I was determined to be one of the first in line to see it. As it happens, I wasn’t just a casual fan cashing in on a bit of nostalgia – I was at the time …

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A Journey Through Time – Part 2 – The Village Episode 2

We’d got back into it pretty quickly after finishing Episode 1. After what I’m sure was a frantic summer of scriptwriting (all of the really good ideas from three planned episodes had been condensed into Episode 1), we set to filming again in October 2000. I remember it reasonably well as the first batch of …

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