London Still Rocks!

Right! Firstly, I forgot to mention the film I saw on tv over the weekend - which, as I watched, I remembered I'd seen before. But I didn't remember a thing about it in advance, and it certainly merited a re-watch. The Cellar , a Shudder co-production, is an Irish horror film, released a few years ago now, about a woman whose daughter goes missing after they move into a big old remote house, and who is very suspicious about strange things related to the house - particularly centred on the cellar, of course. Now, its rating isn't great, and true, the first part of the film is woefully amateurish, from a horror perspective - jump scares, predictable.. BUT. It's based on a rather excellent short film on YouTube , called The Ten Steps , written and directed by the same writer/director of the longer film, Brendan Muldowney . The premise is fantastically simple - a young girl, terrified of the cellar, is forced to face her fear when the power goes when her parents are out, a...

Following straight on from the 10-year-old blog post, London Rocks ! Folks, I have had the most atrocious week - on Wednesday, I lost my phone - and therefore, my only means of authenticating to my Gmail account.. which is how I get into this blog site. So I can now only log into my old email - and therefore my old blog - from a device on which I have logged in before. Of which there are now two in the world - one of which is my mother's computer in Ireland. My own laptop broke down a while ago, and on Wednesday morning, I returned my work laptop - so that was it! apart from one place.. see, I don't have a working printer. So when they emailed me a shipping label to attach to the box the laptop was going back in, I had to find somewhere to print it. The nearest place was a print shop around the corner, where - on Tuesday - I went and logged into my email, so I could print the label. That shop is now the only place in London where I can access my old email / blog. Cue me nippi...