Caption this!

I’m a competition winner! I got a call last night to say I won the Rugby World magazine’s caption competition and had won a £100 voucher for the Rugby Store! I was over the moon – my caption (and it will mean nothing without the picture) was “so tell me again why you’re stir frying my trousers?!” Told you it wouldn’t mean much…

I’m definitely getting a new England shirt and am ridiculously pleased about the whole thing!

This is my last day in the office until next Weds. I’m working from home tomorrow and then it’s bank holiday, weekend, bank holiday, day off… I can’t wait!

I appear to be ready for my close up...

One week before we hit the open road… I can’t believe it’s come around so quickly! We meant to start packing this weekend, but never got round to it, so I’m now hoping to do a little each night (I can’t rely on doing it all the night before because I’m at college). We’re dropping Mr Pluto off with friends on Friday night and heading off early Saturday morning. It’s very exciting! The car is going to be packed to the gunnels with luggage, camping gear and camera equipment. I can’t imagine what it must be like to go away on a trip like this without a car, but some people do…

I spoke to T the producer on Sunday. His production company want to produce my film script! Part of me is as giddy as a kipper, but part of me is still cautious… He has advised me to seek legal advice and Slightly has volunteered to call an agent friend of his today to ask her what I should do and who I should speak to. But as he pointed out, I could get an agent on the strength of this because I am not going to them saying, ‘hello, you don’t know me… in fact no one knows me… but can you get me some work anyway?!’ I’m saying, ‘someone has offered to buy my script, can you represent me?’ A totally different kettle of fish I’m sure you’ll agree.

So there you have it, in the space of 2 months I’ve been offered a photography commission and I’ve sold the option on a script… anyone would think I’m clever… maybe I am!?

It’s a crazy old game this film malarkey though. Anything can happen and it’s like an assault course just to get to the point where the film goes into production, let alone gets finished and then distributed. So keep everything crossed for me, but I won’t be putting the deposit down on a small holding just yet! :0)

(This is my 201st posting!)

Holiday plans

It’s cold and rainy so it must be a bank holiday! I can’t say I’m too concerned; I’m tucked up at home with the heating on, the dog at my feet and a Mr. Kipling bakewell slice!

We’ve spent the morning booking accommodation and festival tickets for our holiday in Scotland (we’ll also be camping). We’re going to the Outsider festival in the Highlands.

http://www.outsiderfestival.co.uk/

We considered doing both days, but decided in the end to just do the Saturday with KT Tunstall and Capercallie. (From being a fest’ virgin, I will have two under my belt by the end of summer!). I think we’re going to have a fantastic two weeks but I’m trying not to think about it too much, because I get a bit overexcited!

But from the pleasure of holiday planning, I now have to do the vacuuming and the washing up… only after Murder, She Wrote and my second bakewell slice though; it is a bank holiday after all…