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“Hi. Sorry to bother you. Great stuff! I take it you are NOT the Alan Moyle who has directed several films? Please advise. Thanks ES”

Alas no, the only films I have directe4d involved my mobile phone and an otter hand puppet!

Early Morning Ego Tripping

Did an ego search on google, I’ve got a lot of work to do to get myself to number 1.

Dam movie directors, I’d be very interested to meet Allan Moyle director of such hits as Empire Records and Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story. He looks to be a Canadian. Technically we don’t share the same name, he has two l’s in his name, where as I have just the 1.

Maybe I’ll always be number 2 to him, I’ll set myself the goal of taking his photo. Just have to get to North America…

This is the funniest image in the google image search for Alan Moyle.
(I’m the flower)

I miss walking.

I walked a lot when I was in the UK.

But now I’m back and walking opportunities have to be made.

So I took the dog for a walk. I went up to Trevallyn Reserve and walked along a track I hadn’t walked along for quite a few years. The track started off quite solidly, then there was the water and mud. Not a little mud and a little water, quite a bit for long streaches, but since we had done some damage in the first stretch, I decided to press on. I had a plastic bag in the car, the dog can sit on that on the way home.

So, back to the car, get the bag, put it on the seat the dog sits on, and get the dog up onto the seat. Easy. Well, until the dog realises it doesn’t like sitting on plastic bags and jumps into the back seat. Repeats the same movement another 3 times. This normally wouldn’t worry me too much, just get the seat covers cleaned. But I had just had the car detailed a couple of weeks ago and the seat covers were not on the seats yet. So, my nice newly shampooed upholstery is not sporting a bit of a doggy foot print design.

I still like the dog.

In other news,
Finally getting some more work done, had a coupel of enquiries for comedians needing photos too.

Plus, I also found out that one of my wedding couples had a baby while I was away. Very cool. So congrats to Andrew and Jac, and welcome to little Jasper.

Arriving.

I’ve been back over a week now, spent some time in Melbourne on the way through.

The first day I managed to stay up for a long time, I arrived at 4.30am, was picked up by Tom (I delivered him his Bottle of Vodka payment). The rest of the day is a bit of a blur, I know I did some things, I did have a nap in the arvo for a couple of hours and then went to Tom’s wives mum’s place for a family dinner. Directly after that I ended up at the lovely Mel’s for her birthday party, which was quite fun and I was very awake by the time we left.

The next day I had a great day hanging about with Bec, having a very aussie lunch at a pub (the words sangers and pie were used), then just wandering in my jet lagged state until I fell asleep at numerous times through Wallace and Gromit’s movie. I saw just enough of the movie to know what was going on and to spoil most of the main plot twists.

Then off to Queenscliff for a photography seminar, it was interesting to compare the oen I went to in Tasmania with this one. I can say that Tasmania’s had a lot more appeal on many fronts. There was still one thing that was similar between the two seminars, the fact that I was responsible for producing 3 of the 4 images my group put up to win their weekend prize!

All the time I was in Melbourne I was staying with Tom, his with Rebecca and their 2 year old Ella. I had no worries about getting up in the morning; Ella was good at making sure everyone was up. It was really good getting to know them all a bit better and playing with Ella.

When I finally got back into Tas, I did a few things. I threw out 3 bags of rubbish from my office, had my car professionally detailed, put together a 1.5 hour talk on my comedy photo history, threw out some more stuff, hired a book keeper, generally got organised and decided not to get hooked on any TV shows for the next little while (And I used to really enjoy The Mole).

I’m also searching and have most likely found an office, needs a bit of work but hopefully that can all be done fairly quickly and I can be in their by mid November at the latest.

I’ve also managed to catch up with Tim Minchin who did a small tour around Tasmania, play scrabble with some of the guys in Hobart, give my friend Robbie a small scary looking child for his birthday, redistribute a few landscape images I had lying around and they are not positioned nicely on friends walls, and also finish the book Yes Man by Danny Wallace. Go read it, it’s funny and strangely motivating.

So now I’m at the point where there are big changes ahead, all going to be very cool and make me very busy. More about all that a bit later when I actually figure out how to achieve all my new goals!

Plus I have a heap of photos to work on…