Visited Banham Zoo recently and took this footage of meerkats mucking around at Banham Zoo (click on the picture to view): They are, admittedly, not wearing smoking jackets or talking adorable broken Russian, but
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Review: Guardians of the Galaxy
Oh wow. Loved Guardians of the Galaxy. Just loved it. It was just gorgeous to look at, full of bright pinks, vivid yellows and electric blues. It wore its kitschy, space opera dressing like a star. The
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Review: Dawn of the Planet of the Photorealistic Apes
Recently it’s almost been like the universe is very sorry about what happened a week ago with the whole Transformers affair. It is going out of its way to apologise. After last night’s night raging funfest
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Location Scouting – Blakeney
Another fantastic day – I drove out to Blakeney, looking for locations for Martin and his house. It was idyllic and strange and faintly off-kilter – in short, exactly what I was looking for. I
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Writing in the Cambridge University Library
Had a wonderful day writing in the university library, with a whole room-with-a-view in the North Front to myself because there was only one desk there, complete with plug. I must have been inured
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Review: Transformers: The Age of Extinction (or There Is More Than One Kind of Dinosaur)
I saw Tranformers: The Age of Extinction. In 3D, no less. A reasonable person may be inclined to ask why. And to be honest there is a straight answer to that question. Frequently I will
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Mind Seed now available!
So the big news is that Mind Seed, edited by David Gullen and Gary Couzens is out. This is a collection of science fiction stories the T Party writers in London put together to celebrate the
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Review: What a Wonderful World: One Man’s Attempt to Explain the Big Stuff
The thing about What a Wonderful World by Marcus Chown is that it is like a fruitcake – very rich, very dense, and full of tasty little nuggets. For instance, did you know that the invention
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Review: Kiss Me First
Kiss Me First by Lottie Moggach My rating: 4 of 5 stars Very interesting take on social media. Leila is a dowdy, shut-in teenager traumatised by the death of her mother. She is drawn in
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WFC 2013 in Brighton
So for this weekend I’ve been taking in the wonderful world of the World Fantasy Convention 2013. It’s taking place in Brighton for the third time in its history. I’ve been schmoozing with all of the
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