tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87782722024-03-08T03:35:41.834+01:00More about LifeBritish writer, performer and ex-expat attempts to unravel life and culture.Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.comBlogger409125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-5120619152308079822022-09-02T22:29:00.002+02:002022-09-02T22:53:04.154+02:00How I Lost My Sole to Classical MusicNot long ago, I scored a ticket to a “BBC Prom” (definitely not to be confused with the frequent autocorrect, “BBC porn”). For those who don't know what the proms are, it's a series of concerts run every year celebrating classical music. For those who don't know what classical music is, it’s everything before jazz. At least, that’s my understanding. (For those of you who don’t know what “BBC pornPeter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-89702265388354555952020-12-13T23:58:00.004+01:002020-12-13T23:58:39.235+01:00The Turn (a short story) A driver was driving a minibus along a major road at a good
speed. In the back were 13 passengers. Up ahead the road curved a little to the
left. “You know what,” said one of the passengers, “there’s a toll on this road
up ahead, but there’s an off ramp just before this curve. It takes you to an
amazing road that no one knows about. Where you travel as fast as you like, it’s
free, there’s Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-89786212394065997582020-09-18T22:03:00.004+02:002020-09-18T22:03:21.599+02:00Mo Moseff omd Isolosion: dojs 13 omd 14 With the UK now conceding another lockdown seems inevitable, we end our period self-isolation. I can admit after the rules changed and we would have been able to go out if we’d been away for longer, we stopped taking it that seriously. We weren’t bad, but it’s hard to adhere to rules that are not fully logical. We might have bent them. “Hypothetically,” our lawyers have asked us to add.I’vePeter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-31477537732566585302020-09-16T23:51:00.005+02:002020-09-16T23:51:29.993+02:00Mi Myseff amd Isolasion: daj 12 Still a little of what Earth people call sick. It’s more mere exhaustion now. Probably all triggered by some bad nights of sleep. Or rather bad nights of lack of sleep.The last few days I’ve been enthusing about what I’ve been watching, which I find very easy. I am a bit of nerd when it comes to movies. Sorry if that startled you.It’s been so for a long time and started with a fascination Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-63658734685292288122020-09-15T21:17:00.002+02:002020-09-15T21:17:57.062+02:00Me Myseff amd Isolasion: daj 11 I’ve gotten a little sick. It just seems like a cold, but these days even the slightest sickness fells one with dread that it is the feared lurgy that is currently stalking the land. It most likely isn’t, but you can’t think it.From my last entry you might be thinking I have been doing nothing but watching old TV, but that’s not true. I’ve been watching new TV too. Plus movies.At the start Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-37342092656617193522020-09-14T18:36:00.000+02:002020-09-14T18:36:35.953+02:00Me Myseff amd Isolasion: day 10A couple of days ago, we (as a collective culture) lost Diana Rigg. There is always a steady stream of people who are or were in the public eye or ear or mind who pass on. Some hit you where it hurts and others have less impact on you. Some make you think back to your childhood; some make you think about your own mortality; some make you think about beans.Diana Rigg is someone even younger Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-82503710404412986162020-09-13T13:29:00.002+02:002020-09-13T13:29:16.470+02:00Me Myseff and Isolasion: day 9Self-captive’s Log. Starweek 2, Starday 2.
The people of this planet are strange.
The more false the ideas of the inhabitants the stronger the
belief in them when confronted by contrary information. They have the power to
have information shared by everyone, so that the people could be united by facts,
but the devices that share this information shares everything and has very
little to no Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-35777785502579973762020-09-13T01:45:00.000+02:002020-09-13T01:45:05.185+02:00Me Myseff and Isolation: day 8 Week 2. The week that should not be.Toddlers emulate us adults. It’s how they learn by copying us and trying to be like us. The downside is we realise, because we are always telling her what to do and being firm when she doesn’t do things, she has started doing the same with us. She has become very, very bossy. She orders us about and if we say no, she puts her finger to her lips and goes “Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-40053419116911244412020-09-11T22:42:00.003+02:002020-09-11T22:42:40.586+02:00Me Myself and Isolation: day 7Day 7. End of the first week. After today we are half-way through. We are greeted with the news that Sweden is now on the exemption list. I’d have expected to be more annoyed, but arbitrary rule changes are very much the norm these days. The rule is if you arrive from Saturday, no isolation. If you arrive before, you isolate for 2 weeks. I pity the chumps who land Friday night rather than Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-27648594328660113762020-09-11T00:01:00.002+02:002020-09-11T00:01:21.591+02:00Me Myself and Isolation: day 6Day 6. “Dag sex” in Swedish. Which is a whole other thing in Australian.Toddler is putting face “highlighter” all over her hands and face. She now looks a bit like a friendly alien from a 1980s TV show. As I recall, the friendly ones were attractive and shiny and the bad ones scaly and warty. I’m warty."I have a specific set of skulls."So in the UK, groups over six are to be banned from Monday. Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-16535725849043013762020-09-09T15:49:00.002+02:002020-09-09T16:19:34.891+02:00Me Myself and Isolation: day 5 Day 5. “Undirt wah cat sank,” as they say in France.The toddler is eating jelly and watching one of the many sleep-deprivation-conceived shows for kids. Honestly, young kids shows should mostly be categorised under “psychedelia.”Baby
Jake has LSD induced dreams interpreted by his older brother.The other end of kids shows are more educational rather than
make something like the way their Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-45623289553036904942020-09-08T22:27:00.001+02:002020-09-08T22:27:10.845+02:00Me Myself and Isolation: day 4 Day #4. (Day number four / day hash four / day pound four / day sharp four.)The toddler is rolling her scooter over bubble wrap because just pressing it by hand won’t cut it anymore.Yesterday got into some pretty murky theological areas. I realise I compared my child to Satan. Satan is the bringer of chaos, the sender of noise, the destroyer of all that is weak and fragile. So, that Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-19388995071304119442020-09-07T17:39:00.004+02:002020-09-07T17:39:27.720+02:00Me Myself and Isolation: day 3 Day, the 3. Already I’m reverting to old English (or ye olde Englishe as it’s known).Back in the day, customs officials were keen to know did you have any illegal drugs or banned fruit. Now they want to know where you’ve been in the last 14 days. Which countries, in particular. If a country you have visited is not on the exemption list then you have to self-isolate. “Not on the exemption Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-25514811639826859322020-09-06T23:06:00.002+02:002020-09-07T00:27:49.683+02:00Me Myself and Isolation: day 2 Day 2. Toddler is scooting across the lounge with a liberated coin next to her on the footrest.On the behest of a more scientific friend, I have looked up some of the coronadata.When it comes to this pandemic, there seem are more opinions flying around than actual data. Maybe that’s true of nearly everything nowadays. You’d think the internet would make it easier. After all, everything thatPeter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-35966462822730943692020-09-05T21:46:00.000+02:002020-09-07T00:27:59.187+02:00Me Myself and Isolation: day 1 So, this is the first day of self-isolation after a trip to Sweden. We knew we’d have to do this, and so prepared. We decided it was worth it to have a break AND bury Emma’s grandma. We’re now stuck indoors for a fortnight. We planned for it by signing up for one of those services that delivers ingredients and instructions on how to cook a week’s worth of meals. I might mention their Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-24122393981730405762019-01-30T17:54:00.000+01:002019-01-30T17:54:36.909+01:00The Cry in CreativityBecause I work part time from home and my girlfriend works full time from an office that isn't at home, I am at home with our child most of the time. This is a fact that still takes some people a few seconds to compute even in 2019.
Mostly men, but also women. I think some men consider their masculinity threatened by taking care of a child. It explains the wailings that ensued when Daniel Craig Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-45142769925378729412019-01-02T14:37:00.001+01:002019-01-02T14:37:40.831+01:00#NewYearHumbleBrag 2018-2019
In 2018,
I moved back to my original country after many years away (it's now a country wrestling with itself as to the best way to shoot itself in the foot, but hey);
I had several haircuts forced on me;
I left an improv world where I was a big fish and one of not so many teachers – one that I had seen grow and flourish;
I found myself in a new improv world, onePeter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-64206865791916839532018-07-29T19:13:00.000+02:002018-07-29T19:13:16.834+02:00Proud to be a RemoanerBrexit has literally split the country in half. It's split political parties. It's split families. It's split past Teresa May from “holy crud, I'm in power!” Teresa May. There hasn't been such a divisive thing in British politics since the whole Cavalier v Roundheads thing.
I feel I've been restrained about the whole thing, especially considering it's been a bucket full of writhing shit-eels Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-46636424623249201712017-08-23T22:37:00.000+02:002017-08-23T22:37:02.059+02:00Travel: 18 Aug 2017, Amsterdam to Stockholm
Let's face it, planes are obsessed with being boats. Cabin, crew, (air)port - most of the terms about them are nautical. This is despite the #2 rule of flying being “avoid the sea.” (#1 rule is “avoid the land.”) The
roles on planes always also take their names from the equivalent on ships: Captain, first officer, steward(ess). Thus the
head of the steward(esse)s is called the purser, as it is Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-8864854044695647212017-08-05T15:55:00.000+02:002017-08-05T15:55:34.968+02:00Pétulé (after Dorothy Parker)Cats will scratch you;
Parrots just squawk;
Dogs attack you;
None of them talk.
Mice die quickly;
Rabbits breed;
Hedgehogs prickly;
It's a human I need.
(I urge you to read the the original and anything else by Dorothy Parker.)Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-48693538247469861302016-12-28T17:42:00.000+01:002016-12-28T17:42:42.731+01:00Semi Skimmed Milk In A Stick
Why has no one thought of this before?
Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-88346013120964554762016-12-26T15:24:00.000+01:002016-12-26T15:24:05.270+01:00Serial Killer (2016)
With the sad demise of George Michael it has become clear that 2016 is a serial killer. More specifically a serial killer of the type that really only appears in movies. In films, serial killers always have some elaborate system for picking victims and circumstances which eventually the detective, who has spent the first three quarters of the mostly being flummoxed and dealing with a number of Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-30171953551271287462016-12-24T18:36:00.000+01:002016-12-24T18:36:17.091+01:00Metamorphosis
When naming your home interiors company, it's probably better to steer away from stories by Franz Kafka. Especially ones where the main character becomes a cockroach.
Beware of the trial period.
Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-19841751479004162822016-05-02T22:06:00.003+02:002016-05-02T22:07:51.764+02:00Filming in the RoundVery recently I had the chance to help make a short film with one of the new generation of virtual reality cameras. This allows you to make a movie where the viewer can look all around them in 360 degrees (as well as up and down, so I guess that’s 360 x 360 degrees, which would be 129600 degrees).
It allows viewers to look behind them and see what’s going on. For once it’s not a line of Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8778272.post-90478701836796712382015-12-23T14:11:00.000+01:002015-12-23T14:11:05.427+01:00In the future we are all going to be Miss Universe for 15 seconds.Peter Morehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16088377719121666891noreply@blogger.com2