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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Back from Barcelona (or ‘What do you do when the Head of BBC Drama North is on your plane?’)
Hola. So we’re back from the much-needed break to Barcelona. Birthday girl Heather caught the sun and I caught a mammoth. Also I was informed that I sound even more like Roger Moore when attempting to speak Spanish so a good time was had by all (even the mammoth seemed happy).
Flying from and back to Manchester, we also realised we were sharing the plane with Head of BBC Drama North (and uber-producer of all the recent Doctor Who series), Phil Collinson. But as he was clearly on holiday himself, despite the golden opportunity to corner a very influential drama figure whose work we really like for a meeting while he was trapped with us in a winged steel tube, our natural response was to leave him alone (or, more specifically, to blush quite a bit). We did the right thing, right? 
Anyway, we’re back now and I’m working on fleshing out the treatment for my film project for the Scriptfactory course. Even though it had a previous incarnation, I am starting over to a certain extent to get a lot more unique selling points and new ideas into this version. Hopefully this cool graffiti opposite our hotel will turn out to be a good omen for writing!
It was great to have a break from it all because now I’m really looking forward to getting back into it. Onwards 
