The 14 Book2Film titles of 2020

 

The Covid19 Lockdown and restrictions left me with plenty of time for reading books this year. As well as the twelve original Book2Film titles I also managed to read two extra: The Time Traveller's Wife and The Beach. I also read various self-help titles, Bhuddist books, short stories and poetry. One of my favourite books has been Pottering: a cure for modern life by Anna McGovern. I definitely aim to do more pottering and reading next year.

Space Poetry

I have long been interested in science fiction, but have not written as much of it as I would have liked. Some of my spooky stories could be seen in a science fiction light, quite a few of them in fact, stories like Duchess Doom, The Creature and Living Rooms, I hope to develop them further in the future. I think these following four poems, highlight my literary interest in science fiction and space facts. They are Destination Deep Space, Planet Renga and Pulsar Observation.

 

A Mindful Music Mix

 

 

An inspiring book I read recently was Mindfulness in Music by Mark Tanner. It included many references to music I was unfaimiliar with as well as other music I had forgotten about. I have included the music from the book and also other mindful music interludes on a new spotify playlist called Mindful Mix. There are 220 items on the playlist and it lasts for 20 hours, so I hope I won't be adding any more to it. The list is shown below.

Doctor Who Therapy

Dr Who therapy belongs to the wider concepts of time therapy, sci-fi therapy and TV-box-set therapy. The BBC has provided me with comfort on numerous occasions. I have long listened to BBC radio dramas and talking books to help me sleep before I discovered brainwave music and guided meditations. My favourite episode of Dr Who is Blink. A poignant episode dominated by the beautiful Carey Mulligan as Sally Sparrow who must save the world from the dangerous and scary weeping angels in the absence of the doctor. Other favourite episodes are Midnight, A Christmas Carol and Listen. Below are photographs of my daughter in front of the tardis and inside it, from a visit to the Doctor Who exhibition centre in Cardiff, which we visited in 2013.

Bubble Universe

Writing has long been one of my main interests in life, although life often seems to get in the way of various projects. In 2014 I gathered together twelve of my shortest stories for my project Bubble Universe, with the aim to develop them further over the coming years (see above). I was very happy with the twelve pieces of flash fiction I eventually came up with (see below). They have been elaborated upon, but have all been written between the ages of ten and fifty.

Ten Years a Dollmaker

 

I made my first Star Heart Doll in Spring 2010 and I feel that my doll-making days may have come to an end with ‘The Dolly Project’ of Autumn 2020. I sold and donated to charity quite a few dolls in the twenty teens and in 2020 I had about fifty dolls still in the house.

My dolls were inspired by dolls created by Jess Brown, Tiny Concept and Emily Winfield Martin. I have always been pleased with them and their design and still find them pleasing to this day.

In the future I think I will donate more of my dolls to children’s charities. Here are some of my favourite pictures of my dolls from the past ten years.