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I have a particularly lovely sister – she lives close by has three kids of her own and is a great mum and auntie to my boys. Yesterday, she took my youngest little man to the cinema to see Jack and The Giantkiller – starring amongst others, an old Holland favourite, Ewan McGregor. Patrick Holland…
Many years ago, I was in a TV film on Channel Four called P’tang Yang Kipperbang – just as an extra with one line that never made the edit. The lead girl in the film was a beautiful actress called Abigail Cruttenden – now of Benidorm fame and much else besides. Like all the boys…
Regular readers of this blog – Eclipsed – will recall that I worked with a lovely chap last year called John Williams. John was at stage school with one, Ewan McGregor – so a connection there… As well as being mightily impressed by his warmth on stage and comic flare, I was heartened to hear…
Much is made of who we go to school with and fame by asociation. For instance, I have long told people that I went to school with Dennis Wise! (I didn’t in fact – which readers of my book – how tom holland… will understand) But I know that people chuck my name about in…
This week I received a tweet that delighted me.Ă‚Â It went as follows Derek W Shakespeare?@cookchef117h have just completed reading Eclipsed by @domholland -a fantastically written book,just brilliant!! Derek was at school with me. We weren’t best mates but he has come to a few shows over the years and I remember him with affection –…
Like today – this morning when I was completing my son’s paper-round. My twins are away for Easter, Skiing with their school – while the rest of us stay in freezing temperatures but without the option of skiing. So this morning, I did his paper-round for him and beingĂ‚Â recognizedĂ‚Â (even with my hood up) with car…
When I say breaks through… Has it become the viral sensation that I had hoped -Ă‚Â and propel my two new books to the top of Amazon’s charts and sold thousands of my downloadable stand-up show? Er, no. For the time invested, Eclipsed has not beenĂ‚Â uneconomic. But money is too crude a measure of success and…
Enough already I know – but yesterday was the turn of my youngest son… Recently he took up the Baritone. I didn’t know there was such an instrument. I thought a Baritone was a male singer and most usually a fat one. None of my boys are fat. IĂ‚Â makeĂ‚Â altos more than tenors. Anyway, it turns…
Last night, my twins were in the their house play at school. A competition amongst six houses – each team doing a section fromĂ‚Â a famous play. I arrived as a bad dad. For some reason, I thought my boys were doing an exert from Sherlock Holmes. Wrong.Ă‚Â Chatting with a dad in the interval, it emerged…
Last night was full of mixed emotions for me. Pride that my son should win an award. Well done Tom. Bemusement to be in a room full of film luminaries who belong to an exclusive club that I have never managed to join myself despite repeated applications – and paraded before me were tooĂ‚Â many films…
