hols, and freshers

As its been too much of a gap between posts I still want to put a few bits about T.O.H and my holiday.

• Well as you last left I was poised on Beachy head with T.O.H reaching out towards me, thankfully it was only to stop me from falling over the edge although why they had to push I will never know.

• Brighton; lots of shiny lights, including carousels, piers and fish.chips (hmmmm fish.chips)

• Crazy golf; I have no shame in say that I was beaten by T.O.H on their very first attempt at crazy gold. Although as the loser had to buy the slush puppies there is some shame in that (see face).

One of my favourite moments was attending a talk by Mark Gattis and Paul Franklin. Mark Gattis (as you might know) wrote and stared in the League of gentlemen, has written for Doctor who, has his own successful series of books (think Lord Byron crossed with James bond with dash of Jason King) oh and helped create Sherlock which became one of the BBCs top program this year, so you know a rather talented guy. Anyway as you would presume it was all very entertaining with tales of how characters from the league of gentlemen were created, stories about the Sherlock holmes society (and how the press made up a number of lies about the show) and how he wanted the Daleks bigger and badder but not with that added back bump. Obviously I wouldn't be as interesting if I attempted to repeat his stories but if you ever get the chance I would suggest seeing him talk (or watching crooked house which is great)

Paul Franklin is part of the computer graphics company responsible for effects on the likes of Harry Potter, The Dark Knight and inception. Again he was full of interesting stories that would be rather boring if I attempted to repeat them, I will say my favourite thing he talked about was how Chris Nolan doesnt own a mobile phone, or an email account for that matter, so if your friends with chrisnolan76 on twittebook or what ever its called sorry chances are its not him.