I may have a while, it’s half past midnight. But I’m sitting here waiting as this week’s items of mine for BBC Hereford & Worcester make their very slow way across the BBC webmail system. (No offence to BBC Webmail, I couldn’t do my job without it and I’ve tried, but this one thing is always very slow.)<\/p>\n
It’s because I’m uploading a large attachment, it works out at just under 1Mb per item and I send four at a time so you can understand it choking a bit.<\/p>\n
But while I wait, how are you? If you’re waiting for anything too, have a look at this: http:\/\/pavementandstars.blogspot.com\/ which contains a description of using cards and corkboard for planning your screenplays. It’s thoroughly explained, it’s unquestionably the right and sensible, even proper thing to do, yet I cannot. I was going to tell you why, but I’ll wait until we know each other better. But just because I can’t do it, doesn’t mean you can’t so do have a look.<\/p>\n
Still waiting. Okay, may I tell you how my day’s been? This is more for me than for you, though I do suspect you’ve already thought that, as it’s been my idea of bliss. <\/p>\n
How do I tell you this without a lot of “And then I…” bits? Hang on, my email’s conked. I just to give it a nudge.<\/p>\n
There you go. Okay, I won’t bore you with the hour-by-hour chronology but overall I’ve spent today researching in the library, writing a response to a Radio Times reader who was very gratifiyingly full of praise of my On This Day column but had issues he wanted answered. I did a photo shoot for the opening of a studio – and, wow, standing up on a step ladder, directing 12 people who all did everything I asked, who I somehow managed to keep giggling and laughing so that they look fantastic in the shots, and then prepping 40 shots to immediately go to a magazine that was waiting. More than waiting, its pages had gone to press, the editor was just holding one back long enough for these shots. And then I spent the rest of the night until now recording my BBC Hereford and Worcester stuff.<\/p>\n
So I’ve done print journalism, academic research, photography and radio work in one day. I’m a lucky bastard but I know it.<\/p>\n
Hope you had a good ‘un, too.<\/p>\n
William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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