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(Re-en)acting Up…

Aug 28, 2003 | Chronicles

Or Back to the 70’S… the 1470’s that is… What on earth can make an otherwise sane group of adults drive (collectively) several thousand miles, load, unload, re-load and unload yet again several tons of equipment,  survive two midnight thunderstorms, spend all day...

Tutti Frutti

Aug 18, 2003 | Chronicles

I could not resist, just had to post these… The other day, having gone to an oriental bazaar with the firm intention of tracking down a riveted mail shirt and some other old bits of rusty metal and junk, we paused in a shop to buy drinks. (It was 45 degrees Celsius in...

There And Back Again (And Again….)

Aug 11, 2003 | Chronicles

Spent the week before last running about in front of a film crew, entering stage left and exiting stage right, when it wasn’t the opposite or vice-versa. (The big problem of course being how the heck do you make in any way interesting a guy who spends all his time...

Meditations and Mediations

Aug 3, 2003 | Chronicles

Recently wrote a short text for the French edition of Meditations on Middle-Earth. Mercifully, the editor was willing to accept my ramblings in English and translate them, thus I survived the ordeal with the certitude that some talented translator would make sense of...