BRAIN-SQUASH

Morning!

Out the other side of a thick chunk of script work at last. It has been a full-on few weeks. My fault for getting behind with things last month and in July, and having deadlines absolutely pile on top of one another. And then going away to film last week and now this weekend.

It’s a lovely feeling getting it done, but maaaaaan… it can be debilitating. I’ve always describe it as “brain squash”. It’s exactly how it feels: my brain literally feels compressed, so that I can’t even think straight. It even makes me feel off-balance physically. Always takes a few hours to recover usually. Sometimes even the next day I can still feel a bit… off.

I know. Probably isn’t healthy, but I don’t really know any way to work other than full-on. I find writing needs a degree of momentum, and breaking that to do something else can make it harder. Easier to just go flat-out, even from one project to the next. It’s faster in the long run.

I’m not sure we have time to get a BYAMPOD done this week. We know what the next couple of eps will be, and I’m back listening to Marillion again, so rest assured we’re not going away again. Bubblegun might be slightly late too next week, but you’ll still have it at some point on Monday. But! You will at least have a new video. And we WILL get you the Nottingham outtakes.

Quite by accident, we’re back in that area for the next video (might be the next two videos, if we have time to get a second one done). This is one we’ve wanted to do for a while. We were meant to be filming it last month, but we found out that the key place we wanted to visit was shut on Sundays, which is why we ended up in Lincoln.

Talking of, we’re re-uploading the Lincoln video to the new channel tomorrow. If you can find five seconds to comment, or play it in the background, it would be much appreciated. The Nottingham video has done far, far better than we expected for our first video, and we’d like to keep things rolling. The move has worked, and we’re definitely being pushed in front of new people, who are finding us for the first time.

The next few vids will keep the same light tone as the Nottingham day out, then we’re aiming to – finally – head a bit further afield for our next big one. Wales beckons, but we also want to get up to Scotland, down to the South West, and over to Northern Ireland (we hear you, Bea) at some point. And Newcastle! Never been to Newcastle, apart from a disastrous meeting just outside it a couple of years ago. I spilt an entire cup of coffee all over the table within a minute of arriving.

Oddly, I very nearly grew up there. There was a chance that my dad’s work was going to transfer him, and my parents did – briefly – look at houses in the area. Imagine me with a Geordie accent!

Right. I'll leave you alone now. Going to try to decompress a bit before I have to do a three hour drive.

We'll post pics!

Paul