The Chinese new year of the Ox officially started Monday 26 January. New moon, new year and a new president of the US and A. Apparently Obama is also an Ox, who are apparently strong headed and determined to toil towards their goal over a long stretch time.

This year they say is the harvest, the fruition of all that (not only Oxen) all you have worked for over the last few years. Let’s hope so, I’m a water Ox myself and have been in the grind for quite a stretch. So will put it to the test, not by waiting for astrological predictions to actualize, but by blazing through in serious combat mode.

I came back to London last week fly-by-night styling and had to get straight into new missions to finish treatments for deadlines (one of the projects being a factional thriller styled docu).

My main hunger is still to shoot the Caribbean drama-thriller and the work on it still continues on a parallel track, but these specific projects for broadcast are more feasible short-term.

I’ve also been writing more and more fiction and currently working on a number of short suspense stories. Film and music are such fickle industries, but with fiction it’s at least me, my fountain pen and paper. A crazy trinity that I can at least rely upon to get the narratives out of my head.

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