Stephen Blyth's Blog

The popularity of authors and presenters following in the footsteps of famous writers or artists, or walking the whole length of a country, mountain range, island or following some geographic feature has got me thinking about a project of my own. Last year I really enjoyed a TV series about distinguished English actress Miriam Margolyes’ [...]

I’ve been humming and haring about whether to upload any photos of our daugther Elsa. Something primal has struck me – I feel very protective of her and I guess I don’t want to her image freely shared willy nilly with strangers. It’s not that I think any harm will come to her (I definitely [...]

Pounding in the background is Talking Heads from on their “Stop Making Sense” live concert, now on dvd. It’s an astoundingly good concert, with a real spark over 20 years after its first release. Using the concert name for my repackaged blog is not a homage to Talking Heads, though I’m fond of their quirky, [...]

There were some damn good films at The New Zealand Film Festival last month. Here’s a few of my favourites. Well, actually, a write-up a couple of the ‘promotional’ websites. First up, a word about the offical Film Festival website itself. It’s hard to avoid Telecom’s brazen sponsorship: an overdose of branding with slick functionality. [...]

When we were doing some planning for Heartbeat last month one of the five key areas we decided to focus on was FUN. Organising fun events, that is.It all started with a list of alternatives to the proposed v8 motor-race. The list was faxed by Diana’s daughter from London. Amidst the suggestions were pram racing, [...]

With the end of daylight savings I’ve finally come in from the wilderness where I’ve spent most of the summer. It’s not that I haven’t had lots of ideas to share, but staring at this screen has been surplanted by walks, swimming, socialising, tramping, etc. In February I started in a new position with Family [...]