by Graeme Cumming | Nov 4, 2016 | Writing |
Like many people, I enjoy reading books with recurring characters. Lee Child’s Jack Reacher, for example, or Jeffrey Deaver’s Lincoln Rhyme. Provided they’re well written, they offer predictability – you know what you’re getting. When I first decided to write...
by Graeme Cumming | Jan 17, 2019 | Gogglebox, Nostalgia, Television |
A key part of 1960s TV shows was the pre-title sequence. There were some exceptions, but during that period there was a particular style designed to draw the viewer in. It would set the tone, but also compel you to find out what was going to happen next. For me, one...
by Graeme Cumming | Jan 6, 2019 | Nostalgia, The Gigging Years |
When I heard about the movie Bohemian Rhapsody, I dismissed it. I love the cinema but, generally speaking, don’t like biopics, and I’m not keen on recreations of live performances. I’ve seen plenty of the real thing, and you can’t match those. Part of me also worried...
by Graeme Cumming | Dec 31, 2018 | Blogging |
It seems a post I issued a few hours ago was incorrect, so if you’ve read that, ignore it. If you haven’t, just ignore this paragraph, because the rest is correct (or so I’m told!). As the clock ticks on, we get ever closer to seeing in 2019. In...
by Graeme Cumming | Dec 22, 2018 | Life Lessons, Speaking, Uncategorised, Writing |
Eleven years ago, I was dreading Christmas. I’d split up with my partner the previous spring and she had decided to go to her mum’s for a few days, taking our children with her. It would have been wrong for me to argue. After all, it had been my decision to break the...
by Graeme Cumming | Dec 11, 2018 | Gogglebox, Movies, Nostalgia |
Having lived in the historic county of Nottinghamshire for most of my life, and now living close to the edge of what remains of Sherwood Forest, it’s perhaps inevitable that I’m drawn to tales of Robin Hood. A few years ago, Russell Crowe took on the role in a film...
by Graeme Cumming | Dec 1, 2018 | Literary Festivals, Movies |
If you missed the post that got us to this point, click here. Having decided to take the opportunity to obtain a signed copy of Forever And A Day, we waited for the long queue to gradually work its way down before joining it. I’d guess around 20 minutes passed as we...
by Graeme Cumming | Nov 27, 2018 | Literary Festivals |
If you missed the post about our first event at Henley, click here. We were early for our next event, but so was everyone else and they were queueing down the street. An effect of my partner’s back problem is that she can only stand for a short period of time before...
by Graeme Cumming | Nov 24, 2018 | Literary Festivals, Writing |
If you missed the post about the Marlborough Literary Festival and feel you’ve missed out, click here. We’d been to the Marlborough Festival on a Saturday. The events we’d booked at Henley were on the Wednesday, our first at 4:30, so there was no rush to get there....
by Graeme Cumming | Nov 21, 2018 | Literary Festivals, Writing |
Because neither my partner nor I had been to a literary festival before, we didn’t know how our time would be spent, so it made sense to check the programme and pick out specific events to attend. When I ran through them, though, there weren’t many that appealed to...
by Graeme Cumming | Nov 17, 2018 | Literary Festivals, Writing |
In truth, it’s been a while since I went to a festival (a couple of months now), but a few things have been buzzing around my head and I felt I needed to share them. I’d never been to a literary festival before. Not that I can recall, anyway, which seems like madness...
by Graeme Cumming | Nov 12, 2018 | Blogging |
I suspect there will be a few of these posts over the coming weeks and months. If you’re not a blogger, you won’t be overly interested. If you are one, you probably will be. But I have nothing more to say at this stage (I will in the future). For the...
by Graeme Cumming | Nov 2, 2018 | Blogging |
Warning: This will only be of interest to bloggers For those of you who didn’t pick up on it, I joined the committee of the Bloggers Bash last year and helped organise this year’s event. I’d be lying if I said every moment spent on the preparation...
