Goodbye Fergus

Yesterday I discovered actor and comedian Fergus MacDonald Caird had passed away. He played the father in our short movie ‘Flawless’, which you can watch below. Fergus was an excellent performer, capable of evoking layers of emotion in a single expression. He was a funny guy, just naturally funny, and he cracked me up every […]

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Roman Power Tools

It’s bad enough i see people on Facebook saying the Egyptians didn’t build the pyramids but yesterday I bumped into one commenter insisting the romans had electrical machinery and that anyone who couldn’t tell that by looking at their buildings was a fool. I had to reply. I said the Romans would tell us in […]

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Wandering The Barbican

Finally took the brutalist architecture pilgrimage to the Barbican Estate in London. A wonderfully serene place, a lost dream of what a community could be, what with its high walkways, no cars, its social housing next to fancy apartments, its conservatories, parks and museums. It’s like something from Next Generation but built out of a […]

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Friends. To The End.

‘She understood me and I her’ my mum texted me after her oldest pal passed away recently and that line really hit me. I brace myself for losing old friends because it would be less like losing a limb and more an entire wing of your mental library. All those jokes and memories and references […]

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