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Aiiieeeeeee so close but...

¦ dialling in from the sky bunker ¦

17:54. Washed and squeeky clean, I've got that damp squidgy feeling going on in my ears...sitting with a towel wrapped round my lower half, otherwise dressed in a clean shirt. The weather's not much improved on grey...other than the temperature has steadily increased beneath the murk. I'm killing time before I head out on a photo-shoot. Three ladies who are opening up a female pampering service. It's a welcome break from the nerve-jangling approach towards the end of Yellow Dawn. I completed the back cover and promotional text today... God why is it always so hard to write copy like that?! Looking really good. God can't believe 6 months of 12 hour days is coming to an abrupt end... tomorrow probably. Just one last thing and then that's it. Done. Part of me feels like celebrating tonight but I know I should just come home after the shoot and push on towards the end. A friday night date with my laptop...and a glass of wine. Looking forward to my lady coming back.

Somebody's going to win 10,000,000 GBP tonight. Imagine what you could do with that. Here's dreaming.

Djr

Almost there...

¦dialling in from the sky bunker ¦

06.10 Am Friday morning 8th June. So much for the English summer. A solid bank of dull grey sits beyond the blister window. I don't actually mind, it's made it a bit easier being locked away up here; I've spent the last month sitting up here about 12 hours a day.

I finished laying down the text for Yellow Dawn on Wednesday. Jumped in my car and headed over to Bath for a night of getting shot to death by Boba Fet (Matthias)...another Star Wars Battlefront II extravaganza.

I should finish reviewing text and insering images today. Then I need to create a back cover, and I'm done.

I feel done in.

Woke up at 5.30 AM with a start. Was having a pretty uncomfortable dream, where somebody stole my bag from a cafe / club; I knew who stole it but there was no way to prove it... then suddenly, within the dream, I realised the bag contained my laptop AND my backups. All my novels. All of Yellow Dawn. Gone. I jumped out of bed in a freaked-out heart pumping state, had a fight with a spider web (why was there a BIG spider web in the bedroom?) then pulled on some clothes and trudged downstairs. 1 mug of tea sorted out my brain.

06.55 A.M. I've written some E-mails. Written the "foreward" for Yellow Dawn. Time to make a 3rd mug of tea and crack on with the surreal world.

Djr

6th June - completed laying down text

¦ dialling in from the sky bunker ¦

3.30 pm Wednesday 6th June. I've reached the end of laying down text on Yellow Dawn (2nd ed). Have now started process of reviewing the text on each page, inserting images from Amy Armstrong and preparing it for publication. Fingers crossed should have it done by the end of the weekend. Too brain frazzled to really comprehend the achievement. Just looking forward to being able to switch off when it's all done.

Exciting progress with the Baraka project, I've been asked to be an associate creative and I'm finally seeing some work coming my way I can get my teeth into. Could be the next 'big thing' on the Internet.

Was also excited by the trailer for the new Bourne film. I caught the trailer yesterday, when I went to see Zodiac. I grew up on Bourne, and all Ludlum novels... and I've been thrilled to the very bone by how well the film production has captured the essence of Ludlum perfectly, whilst shifting the context to the 21st Century. I am also deliriously happy to discover UNKLE have done the soundtrack: i could not think of a more absolutely perfect ensemble.

However, I end on a grim note. The logo for the 2012 Olympics. It's an absoluter disgrace. 400,000 GBP for a piece of utter rubbish that looks like it's the product of a stuffed gorilla falling from a pedestal clucthing a can of pink paint and a stencil set. They've now discovered the logo is triggering epilepsy in some people. 400,000. Four hundred THOUSAND. It's cronyism at its most obvious and it would strike me that "Lord" Coe has become a backseat crook?  Anyway I've signed an online petition against it, demanding it be removed.

www.gopetition.co.uk/petitions/replace-the-london-2012-logo-now.html