Blog posts from 2011

Oh, Monty Python would be proud

Last night I received one of the funnier and most specific spam emails to have landed in my inbox.:

Hi sir,
Am Jane and we are a group of film makers and investors located in Cameroon.I saw your advert over the net and was interested.Please we said you are also a competent group in film making.We intend to produce a film with a ready budget and we are looking for film expertise to get into partnership. 
We also intend to bring in some actors from American.So if interested,email me back for details.

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Bon Voyage RMS St Helena

Flicking through a recently copy of Wanderlust, I read that the RMS St Helena has set sail for the final time from Portland in the UK.  Now, if you didn't know, St Helena was the regular mail and cargo lifeline for the islands of St Helena and Ascension which still survived alongside the fairly regular RAF flights to the latter.

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GOLD RUSH in Alaska

Uncharacteristically, the lack of blogging action on this site hasn't been a result of my usual laziness. Instead, I find myself in the wilds of SE Alaska for the best part of two and a bit months working as shooting PD on the second series of Raw Television's, GOLD RUSH for Discovery.

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