Martin A W Holmes

Happily, proper progress is now being made on planning Gruntleigh novella number 3 🙂

Walk of the Week (110326):
TIDESWELL

“Nobody ever wants a war!”
cry warmongers who seem to desperately want everyone
to go to war.

“We’re at 35 Brookside Terrace!”
“Brookside…?”
“It has always been a troubled place…”

I remember thinking how ancient Simon & Garfunkel seemed watching the concert in Central Park on TV presumably sometime after 1981.

I still have the double LP of this on a shelf somewhere…

So close…!

WotW noir (050326)

Walk of the Week (050326):
Castleton - Dirtlow Rake

Stroppy letter from a bank telling me off for not signing in to read their vital marketing emails for too long. Then it takes half an hour to sign in to the bank… 🙄

RSPB Old Moor (030326)

Sunday was spent slowly staggering inexorably towards the last page of what will hopefully eventually be referred to as draft 2 of the latest bookette.

All the trims and tightenings have already made it ten pages longer than draft 1 😂

Saturday night movie:
SECRET AGENT
(Alfred Hitchcock, 1936)
via ITVX

Second drafts are brutal… 😱

Walk of the Week (260226):
LANTERN PIKE

A year already…?

How time flies… even when you’re going the long way round…

Some high profile efforts have been risible 🙄

It’s surprisingly easy to get Christie wrong, it would seem. The stories and structures are so solid, it always amazes me when people decide to mess about with them and try to “improve” them 😱

We’ve just ejected the DVD of A HAUNTING IN VENICE from the machine. Daft as a brush, but stylistically done. I think I enjoyed it more second time around. Not the greatest (I think you’re right in your choices) but not dreadful either 🙂

Not really, but I did have a cheese sandwich, and a nice cup of tea 😀

Anyway, I’m going to try and appreciate this tiny moment of joy before diving into the task rewriting the blooming thing 😀

I’m sure it’s probably a matter of complete indifference to most of the cold, uncaring universe, but today, just before lunchtime, I completed the first draft of the second GRUNTLEIGH “COMPLICATIONS” novella (!)

Absolutely… I’ve just been very conscious lately of some people using that film in particular to press other narratives of their own, if you know what I mean…

I know…!

I felt a little uncomfortable about the subject matter, to be honest with you, but had to admire the work 🙂

😉

I wouldn’t be at all surprised 🙄

Crikey! Two years already since I published #ScribblOgrons…!

Andrew charged taxpayers for massage when trade envoy, claim ex-civil servants Whistleblower former civil servants claim there was too little scrutiny of Andrew's costs as UK trade envoy.

People shocked about paying out for one particular thing when they’ve spent decades paying for everything else they do shock…

Andrew charged taxpayers for massage when envoy, claim ex-civil servants www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Finally got around to watching Hitchcock’s THE LODGER on ITVX, and, apart from some frankly terrible soundtrack choices (recent additions), it’s still rather fascinating at 99 years old 🙂

I took a picture of this just because it looked like one of @gruntleigh.bsky.social’s nightmares… 😂