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All good things must come to an end…

One might think this a strange title for a blog post to begin 2019, but with all beginnings there is the sense of something ending, like...

Getting into the Christmas Spirit(s)…

Yes that’s right, Christmas has come around again and you know what that means - pass the paracetamol please!! In fact I have been...

The Infamous Butcher Christmas meal...

It’s that time of year again, when the fairy lights twinkle on the trees, the aroma of mulled wine fills the air, and family gatherings...

Mumbling a Monologue

So as many of you may know I am currently working freelance because of the slightly chaotic lifestyle that comes out of trying to find...

A great face for radio...

Admittedly no one has actually paid me this insult recently, but in the world of brutal aesthetic judgement in which we live (and in...

‘The Other Place’ & other journeys…

This blog post carries with it a certain sense of a journey - perhaps less in its literary construction than the fact that it was...

Dating dilemmas

Doctor: I’m afraid the prognosis is not looking good. Me: Oh really? Just tell me the truth Doctor, I can take it. Doctor: You have...

Life in Ruins

Don't worry - it's not a mid-life crisis (and even if it were I would rather hope it weren't a 'mid-life' crisis, but instead a 'still in...

Organised chaos

To the untrained eye my life may seem like a perfectly coiffured toupee - not a hair out of place - but I am afraid I must let you all in...

The Holidays are coming!

Friends, do not fear. It is not yet Christmas I speak of, nor even Halloween, despite their all-pervasive presence in the supermarkets....

Work it baby!

So since I got back from Florence my life has been thrust into 5th gear. I have subscribed to Premium membership on Mandy, an actors'...

Fun in Firenze

So despite the fact that the sun is currently shining in the UK, my mood is still rather bleak, because I have had to wave 'Arrivederci'...

Thesps R Us

On Friday 7th September, having recently returned from my run at the Edinburgh Fringe, I got my first chance to audition for a...

F-F-F-Flyering

As I am about to leave the flat to embark on yet another day of flyer-ing for Shot in the Dark, I have begun to realise what an apt...

A marriage of true minds

For once this is not a self indulgent post - a celebration of my parents' 29th Wedding Anniversary. I feel now (as the years roll by)...

The Edinburgh Adventure begins!

My train pulled in at 18:15 yesterday evening and almost immediately I was whisked away for dinner and a catch up - including copious...

All the world's a stage

As I embark on the long and quite possibly rocky road that leads to a long-desired career as an actor, I have realised just how true...

A Headshot headache

As I have made the perhaps brave, perhaps foolish, decision to pursue a career in acting, I have had to take some of the first baby...

One shuffle forward, 3 leaps back

It's been a month since graduation, and in the grand scheme of things that's not very long, but when you realise the 3 exams you took...

Absence makes the heart grow fonder

There has been quite a serious intermission between my last post and this, and for that I must apologise. My only excuse is a little...

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