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[7 Sep 2009 | One Comment | ]
And now for something completely different

I’ve been wittering on about writing for a while so I thought it was time for a change of media. Animation and visual effects to be precise. Why? Because that is what I studied at Bournemouth University and achieved a 2.1 BA (Hons) in just over five years ago. And because recently I found this video and I thought I should write a blog about it all.

Back in 1996 when I was almost fourteen I went to see Toy Story at the cinema. I sat there and had a wondrous …

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[11 Jul 2009 | 5 Comments | ]
The Real Me

As a natural communicator and in the business of communicating I am constantly checking how open I am about things. Inevitably I suffer from foot in mouth syndrome on regular occasions and quite often get it completely wrong. Fortunately I get it spectacularly right with enough frequency to keep me in a job and not lose me all my friends and acquaintances.
That balance is what has made the decision to write this particular post so hard. I’m know people who read my blog vary from close friends to colleagues to …

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[19 May 2009 | No Comment | ]
Geek Chic

Geek is cool! This is not a new revelation. From experience I know that owning a pair of Louboutin’s and a Mulberry bag is not mutually exclusive with getting excited about the latest developments in technology or science.
I have always been proud of my completely geeky and random interest in the most abstract of things. Even when the thirst for knowledge strikes me in the middle of the night (I once got up at 3am because I HAD to know whether Bournemouth got it name because it was the mouth …

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[12 Apr 2007 | No Comment | ]

So Saturday ended up being worst case scenario (see ‘Beer and Karoke… what else do you want?’ blog for details) which meant I was in a foul mood by the time I got home, I had been up since somewhere in the region of 6am and had missed out on a day on the beach in Bournemouth. S suggested that I drive down as far as Southampton and get a train from there, which turned out to be a great suggestion. I managed to drive down in less than an …