Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

My generously proportioned hotel room at the Carlton, Cannes - my first stay here since the Melrose years c1996 with MindGym

Dinner with Anna Higgs of Film4 at Gordon Ramsay's Plane Food at LHR T5

Talking about NEDs in Old Queen St

Starspots special #14: Starmeets

26/3/12
Ian Hislop (and wife)
Outside the National Theatre
First time since Not Forgotten launch at Imperial War Museum in 2008

27/3/12
Gary Kemp
In Heddon Street where Ziggy Stardust was born

Starspots #67

Jon Snow
Outside The Guardian, York Way
24/3/12 on the way home from Olympic volunteer training

Henri Cartier-Bresson

"There is nothing in the world that does not have a decisive moment"

(on Behind the Gare St Lazare 1932)

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Having cleaned up the ground behind the Mond Monument

Watching a war movie with U & N (Spike Lee's Miracle of St Anna)

A bitter shandy in one of those old dimpled pint glasses (sharing a little with N) - The Adam & Eve, Mill Hill Ridgeway

Joan Baez (Festival Hall) 17/3/12

1 God on our Side
2 Swing Low Sweet Chariot
3 Joe Hill
4 House of the Rising Sun
5 Suzanne
6 Diamonds & Rust

7 Blowin' in the Wind
8 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
9 Imagine

with Una

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Watching Rob Kearney and the Irish team play in the 6 Nations Rugby against Scotland

Reading 'Six Days' in the back garden sunshine

Having a Saturday afternoon wander down the High Street

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Women's 3m Springboard diving at the 2012 Olympic Aquatics Centre

Morning run in the sun

Watching Homeland on Channel 4

Life Drawing - Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Last life drawing class of the season (Zoe 2)

Drink of Symonds cider after with Andy, Zoe and co. To celebrate Steve's birthday

Reading Tomorrow over vegetable gyoza soup

Words I Hate

Killing Time
Maggot
Bloods

Creative Accounting #617

Little White Lies (Les Petits Mouchoirs) / French = The Big Chill / American

with Liam Neeson (Gilles Lellouche), Dustin Hoffman (Francois Cluzet), Sean Penn (Benoit Magimel) look-a-likes
Ludo = Alex, Marie = Chloe, Max = Harold, etc.

Creative Accounting #616

Homeland = The Manchurian Candidate + 24

Creative Accounting #615

Juno & The Paycock = Jerusalem + The Weir

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

Reading Tomorrow by Graham Swift (signed edition from Brighton, set in Brighton)

Lunch with Mark Sheldon as he heads off

Dinner with N in Muswell Hill

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Lunch and chat with Will Gompertz al fresco near Broadcasting House

Evening coffee with Roddy Gibson outside Bar Italia in the Absolute Beginners streets of Soho

Launch of Cern People with Roger Graef at Google - with Andy Charalambous

Starspot #633

20/2/12 Charlie Brooker - outside Channel 4

9/2/12 MacKenzie Crook - leaving East Finchley tube

Feb 12 Jimmy Carr - entering Channel 4

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Taste of a tangerine up on Chanctonbury Ring

Watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off on my day off in the afternoon with the Enfants Terribles

Jogging east of the Marina to the chat of Mayo & Kermode

Today's Happiness Experiment entry

Churchill's amateur enthusiasm for painting as read in his studio at Chartwell

Going to the movies with the Enfants Terribles and Alfie (Man on a Ledge)

Hitting town (Brighton) for a traditional Shakeaway

Thursday's (9th Feb) Happiness Experiment entry

Salome silent film with live music with U at Purcell Room - greeted with the exotic scent of incense

Meeting up with a bunch of YouTubers from New Year Revolution including Hanna and Lex

Lunchtime pilates

What the Dickens - Tuesday's (7th Feb) Happiness Experiment entry

Warren W brewed up Charles Dickens' punch recipe (rum and brandy), set it on fire and served it up to old pals

Reading Big Sur (Jack Kerouac) begun at Big Sur in 2004

Talking telly with JHunt and colleagues over breakfast