According to the dust-jacket blurb on the recently re-issued hardback, Ian Fleming wrote 'Casino Royale', the first Bond novel, "in the run-up to his marriage ... [he] maintained he wrote it to take his mind off getting married". Wonder what his wife thought of that?
Well, Ian Fleming I am not. I'm getting married on Thursday and it's all I've been able to think about for the past couple of weeks. And even though Paula's sister Jodie and my best friend Lesley pretty much appointed themselves as wedding planners and have seen to all the major arrangements, there have still been any number of things demanding my attention. Accordingly, my cinema-going and DVD-watching have nose-dived, as evidenced in the lack of recent material on Agitation of the Mind and Guilty Pleasures. For which, my apologies.
Apologies, too, for the arid desert of unblogged space that it will continue to be for the next fortnight (we're honeymooning in Scotland for a week after the wedding).
But, like the indestructible 007, The Agitation of the Mind will return.
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Hi Neil - just wanted to say congratulations. Hope the wedding went well. Have been reading your blog from time to time - keep up the good work! Richard
Thanks, Richard. Great to hear from you. The wedding went perfectly - even the torrential shower that decided to lash Nottingham while we were being driven to the venue didn't, pardon the pun, put too much of a damper on things.
One thing about honeymooning in Scotland, though - there's a lot of distilleries up there and they all have gift shops. It might take quite a while for my bank account to recover!
Glad you're enjoying the blog. Keep dropping by and feel free to leave comments.
Kind regards,
Neil
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