A s you might be able to tell from the length of time between posts since I got back, it has been a pretty busy time. Hopefully that will translate into profitable, interesting and fun...January was always going to busy and it's lived up to that. Cinema Days was an interesting mix of films - a somewhat lukewarm list at first look, but which proved to at least have some minor gems in there. I was surprised to like The Blind Side so much and surprised to find Invictus (which after all had Mandela,...

A ttention all! To help in the PEACE Fund's money-raising for Haiti, the charity will be auctioning off a number of exclusively-signed photographs I've been taking over the last two years with various people I've interviewed. Most are approximately 10x8 shots, each with the phrase 'There can be only one....' followed by the star's signature. These are unique items, in many cases, even the photo hasn't been seen in public before. The first of these, Lord of the Rings star David Wenham is already...

U sually people make resolutions in the dying days of a year - and all too often break them in the opening moments of the new. It's only human... we aspire to greatness and then inevitably stumble a bit as we lurch towards them down the road of good intentions. I really didn't make any at the turn of 2009, in fact I never even really thought about making them or not. Barely crossed what passes for my mind. Perhaps I was too busy digging out snow-drifts, making the most of the out-of-the-UK down-time or somehow finding I was being more frightingly domesticated in a month than I am for the other...

W ell, I'm back from Iowa and I've traded one lot of snow for another. Usually when I arrive back in the UK, it's raining, but it's rare that the climate is so similar. I guess I should have been a tad more specific when I hoped for a White Christmas... (the careless vagueness in wish has proven the same as saying 'More David Tennant on the telly would be okay this year...') But weather-wise, though there's still snow on the ground in both countries, the English kind is infinitely more depressing....

Something, something Dark Side.... Simon Hopkinson and a few of us will be taking part in the Project 365 Initiative where we'll all be posting a photo each day for the next year - circumstances permitting. As there are a few hiccups with getting the formal site up, I've started by posting my pix on a new page of my own site, which you can find here: http://john-mosby-media.blogspot.com/ (On  the photo page you can find a caption for the photo and more info by clicking each DATE...

W ell, here in Iowa, it's not even 6:00pm, but back home in Leeds it's rapidly approaching the end of a day, week, month, year and decade. It's been a mixed year in many ways... Certainly, it was a distinct personal improvement over 2008. A year ago I was here in Iowa again, but very much still feeling the effects of the brain-splodey and hospital stay. I hadn't felt older when I hit 40, but I've kinda felt my age over the last twelve months or so. Professionally, it's been more...