tedious 16 May 2010
It was wonderful to talk to the good folk of Aberdeen and the WORD festival, celebrating its 10th birthday, is a wonderful event. The city was looking lovely – the sun shone, which i am told is not all that regular so I took credit for bringing it with me…I also got to see my eldest god daughter and her beauteous daughter and lovely husband. It did me the world of good too to talk about the writing work – I have such a fear of being pretentious in any way that I sometimes stop myself from dwelling on it or talking much about it to others so when a forum for that is in place it’s just great. For a few hours I felt like I knew something and had information to share with others and it staved off the Black Dog awhile too. A lot of the depression, I think, is my age and the wondering if anything will ever be QUITE good enough (including myself) classic low self esteem – it’s perpetual and probably very annoying to be around, a bit like the frickin ashcloud. I nearly got stranded in Edinburgh as my flight to Dublin was cancelled (not sure why as the airports involved were both open and going to be open too when it was to take off). SO I have stayed on the train and will hit London’s Town later – I feel a walk from Soho to Stockwell coming on because exercise, particularly outdoors, is helpful right now.
Both Richard and myself remembered the FAR AND AWAY story at the same time – all it is is that the last time I saw a film of ROBIN HOOD was when we were filming in America and Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman bought out a cinema one night for a showing of the Kevin Costner version and treated us all to popcorn etc also. When Sean Connery came on there was a bit of an ‘industry’ giggle in the house as he seemed to be turning up EVERYWHERE just then…
