New Play

It's beginning to flow. Amazing what a couple of glasses of Merlot can do...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller is a masterwork. The movie version with Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman and John Malkovich as Biff is intense, maddening and sad. But then you don't need me to tell you that, d0 you?

New Play

I'm writing a play on the 'Crime & Punishment' theme, based in Dublin. The Birkbeck tutor says I should also take a look at Sophocles' Oedipus and and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. So long as I don't take too long on the research; it's got to be done by 19th April. I've done it (April 2). Yeah, I can see his point, now...

Weather eye out for Weather men

'You don't need a weatherman to say which way the wind blows' Bob Dylan.

Like everyone else round here, I'd forgotten what winter was like. It came back with a jolt this time. Should have known that when the Met Office forecast a 'mild winter' after the 'barbecue summer', we were in for Arctic conditions. After bankers and politicians, they must surely be the most discredited profession. Jerome K Jerome said it one hundred and fifty odd years ago in Three men in a Boat. The weathermen or weather people have undertaken not to make long-term forecasts in future - or at least not to broadcast them. As something of a sailor for yonks, I must say that I 'm not impressed with the accuracy of their short-term ones either, despite the huge investment in so-called 'supercomputers'.