Archives for January, 2011
Appraisals.
My daughter came home from school on Monday with a piece of paper. It was laid out like a school report but it was clearly written in the hand of a child. She was chatting away about her “Friend report” and I was doing that Mummy thing of half-listening but not really taking it all [...]
An education.
The thing I love about my job is that I have no idea where anything will lead. I may have an audition and get the job. It may be terrific. It may be a nightmare. I may not get it. However it ends up, I decided about 8 years ago that it had to be [...]
Lies. Damned Lies.
Last night we went to see the film “Somewhere”. It’s a slow-moving film. It’s no Lost in Translation but I really liked it. Stephen Dorff plays a successful actor – Johnny Marco -who lives in the Chateau Marmont. He is bored with everything – his success, the private pole-dancers he invites to his room and [...]
Everything else is a bonus.
I started this year in a hotel in Grangemouth with the kids and ended it in a lovely flat in the Oval. I am fairly sure this is an upward progression. My children loved staying in the hotel in Grangemouth. They loved the huge chimney with the “fountain of fire at the top”. For those [...]
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