The Nod

This is what I do for a living!

Waiting for Nothing

All it takes is an acknowledgement, just a well mannered email to say that we are still considering your request or idea. Even a Yes or a No - something. Anyone familiar with NLP will know that there is no such thing as no reply, as a no reply is indeed a significant reply in itself. There is no such thing as no communication. This leaves me with a real sense of what did I do wrong or what's the matter with me - at least it could, I am strong enough to actually think, rude bastards, you don't know what you are missing.

One day I will stand proud and will say my piece, and woe betide anyone who didn't reply.

Diversity win Britains Got Talent

These guys represent the UK of 2009, it was a fantastic performance and a well deserved win. Inspired and I wish I could bottle everything they have. The media would lead one to think every young man in the UK is a knife carrying, drunken, sob, watch this and think again. With 30 years in entertainment behind me, this is once of the best most creative things I have ever seen.

It's The Weekend

Yeah! It is the weekend. for most fifty year old men I guess that means some time down the pub, working in the shed or going down the allotment. If could involve a trip to a sporting event, time with a partner a well earned rest. I'm taking three children under 5 to the photographers. It is a one hour drive, on a hot sunny day leaving early for a 10 am sitting. I know it will be a nightmare of not sitting still, tears and those words so familiar "I'm tired" and "I'm hungry." Becca will get cross driven by the shame she feels for our inevitably badly behaved children. Strangely it will be all my fault despite having nothing to do with booking the event, other than paying for it and being the father of the children in question.

Happy Weekend to you all.

Star Trek

I loved the movie, a romp and the have a birth at the top was inspired, instant chick flick status, Rebecca was hooked however, Political correctness will be the death of this 50 year old, ok over dramatic but really - was there any need in the totally classic split infinitive of all time.

Space: The final frontier
These are the voyages of the Starship, Enterprise
Its 5 year mission
To explore strange new worlds
To seek out new life and new civilizations
To boldly go where no man has gone before

To replace MAN with PERSON, my goodness it is one of the classic intoructiona of any TV series anywhere, almost historic. They don't fix the grammar but they do make sure we are not sexist. Utterly madness.
On one other point why were Scotties dilithium crystals passed over in favour of a dilithium chamber? I''d love to know JJ, do tell us?

It all hurts

So it all hurts, my leg, my ankle, my back. As one reaches the heady heights of fifty, those little knocks that you hardly noticed as a 19 year old, well they now seem to last for days - weeks - probably the rest of my life! Although my girls are 5 and twins of nearly 3, they are all capable of causing me large amounts of pain as they use me for climbing practice.

There is an upside, I sleep less so the general disturbances of nightmares and the final big molars breaking through don't impact on my life as much as a younger person. And why is it that all the sub 30 year olds have taken days off this week to sleep? My goodness we worked one weekend day until about 11pm and they are all wrecked for the week. I still get in earlier, leave later and look awake all day, I wish the same could be said of them. Plus I have a 2 hour commute at the beginning and end of every day.

Note to self only employ people over the age of 45 from now on.

Geography

Two people aged about 24 and neither knew Kings Lynn was in Norfolk, how can that be? It is beyond me. They can both name the winners of Big Brother in sequence and have the track list to Lilly Allen's album of pack, so they are not stupid. The most worrying thing is that they don't think its an issue. Now granted I can't give you the county name for every town in the UK but you know what I could have a bit of a stab because I bet I can point to most major town on an out line of the UK. Its the excuses that really get me, " I'm from up north" well I am from down south but I can point to Nottingham.