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Any concerns that I would miss performing or go crazy if I didn’t have gigs to do seem unfounded. I am enjoying hanging out at home, cooking bean pies and playing with the kids. June has more or less disappeared and I have done next to nothing in work terms. And in fact feel like I never want to work again.
Hopefully it will pass. I still have work to do on the second series of Relativity, but the recording dates continue to move into the future. I am pretty certain my motivation and mojo will return at some point, but for now I am feeling like I’ve given script-writing a pretty good go and I am not sure I can be bothered any more.
To be fair. I feel like that about four times a year and have carried on so far.
I am sure my reticence probably comes from exhaustion. Ernie is teething again and our nights are disrupted and my brain is not engaging. I watched a bit of House of Games tonight and found myself unable to identify Jude Law. I hope I do better on the one that I was on (I think it’s being screened in the autumn now). There will come a time when my brain has properly atrophied. I am hoping tonight’s inability to recall basic general knowledge was down to lack of sleep. I hadn’t slept that well on the day I was on the show either.
Getting my excuses in early.
A fallow month or two is probably exactly what I need. I guess it would be more enjoyable if all my work was out of the way too. But I don’t like to make things easy or comfortable for myself.
As you all did, I enjoyed Danny Dyer voicing his frustration at the progress being made with Brexit. And the way that Cameron has got away with casually driving a wedge through our country and potentially fucking up its future, largely due to his own arrogance. I realised though that I don’t want a second referendum. We shouldn’t have had the first one. It was an issue too complicated even for experts and could not be sorted out with a yes or no. Cameron and the other politicians should have worked out what was best for it, stuck it in their manifesto and put it into action if they won - as with any other policy. The only referendum I am interested in is one which asks whether we should have referendums or go along with the ones we’ve had. I would be a strong no on this. But of course if No won then we would be duty bound to ignore the result.
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