Nick Stone

Oh hello. that's cool.

It's that happy/sad/funny/daft with a hint of folktale thing he does so well.

I've already added it to my watch it again list.

The Singing Postman.

Pleased to report Small Prophets is ace, a Joy. Mackenzie Crook is a national treasure.

I decided earlier the VW will have wind blown leaves in it, which will be entirely invisible because all the windows will be mucky. I getcha.

Have you seen the one with Jonty and the punks sashaying. Abysmal.

Good to hear it’s not just us lot in the east.

To be fair, I did occasionally look at hands with 6 fingers in early AI stuff and just think, ‘oh, that must have been taken in near Wisbech.’

I won’t dignify it by sharing it.

You’ve seen them? The punk one was just shocking.

And Swaffham.

And yet, of course FB groups cheer it on.

There’s someone ‘bringing images of historic Norwich to life’ using AI, I know my local history pretty well and I’m pretty sure nobody walked around with their head on backwards in the 1930s or split into two people in the late 1970s. Just the most abysmal shite.

Exactly, and I know what you mean.

There was an expression that crossed McKenna's face in one of the early sequences and I thought, 'oh no he's really good', that innate knowledge of kid who knows he's masking a vulnerability. I'll probably cry at some point.

Started watching Lord of the Flies. It's rather beautiful in a deep and unsettling way, a sense of dislocation provided by close up wide lenses, saturation and vibrancy, some of the compositions are really quite stunning. Different to what you expect isn't bad, it's just different. Ignore the haters

'orlreet chuck.'

Stuff like that I usually just make it tbh. All part of the fun.

Incredibly niche, and more so at 1/24th.

It’s not so much the rain, although that’s been quite unusually persistent here. It’s more the unremitting lead coloured seal of thick cloud.

Nor is ‘someone has buried a body in my back garden, but no matter how hard I try I can’t cover the fingers up’.

I note, ‘I am stuck in my aunt’s house in the East End, I can’t find a way out and she has died’ isn’t in here.

This isn’t a prolonged spell of bad weather, this is victimisation.

Imagine if you made traffic cones and bollards, we’d be unstoppable.

Aw shucks. Thanks pal.

Thank you. It’s fun. That’s what it is.

The back end of a rusty blue VW Beetle and a door.

The back end of a rusty blue VW Beetle and a door. Plus headlight assembly etc.

The engine.

The engine door, boot and rear corner with bumper

Progress with the engine, glass and handles. Have added and weathered in the distributor cap, HT leads and air filter, also got rid of most of the chrome on the handles.

Thanks Ian.

A mate who just jacked it in gave me a pile of lacquer paints, I’ve not tried them yet. Any good?