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10th Dec 2012 The Best Job In The World?
Last night I sat on the sofa in my lounge, Christmas tree up and decorated, fire glowing, tired but happy after a long weekend. There was half an hour to go before Homeland started, our one bit of TV addiction. I thought...
13th Nov 2012 What Is It About Kendal?
What is it about the Kendal Mountain Festival that makes it so good? I’m off up there again this Saturday. Going with Lissa who’s working more and more with me on my events, so that she can get a feel for the...
11th Mar 2012 Charlie Spedding lecture review by Tim Budd, Global Therapies
Sports and remedial massage therapist Tim Budd (Global Therapies) took a well-deserved break from the ShAFF treatment room and went along to English marathon record holder Charlie Spedding's talk last night. So I...
6th Mar 2012 Charlie Spedding, The Runner's Runner by Stuart Hale
The Runners 'Runner' - guest blog by Stuart Hale, owner of Sheffield running store, Accelerate, about why he's so chuffed to be introducing Charlie Spedding ahead of his talk at the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival at...
9th Feb 2012 Hashtags & Google Alerts
It’s a funny old world. Last week my Dad made a photo book with an online publisher. It was simply for him and my Mum. A single copy. Within minutes of the book being ‘published’ I had an email in my inbox telling...
30th Jan 2012 Sharing
We've been pretty blown away by a couple of emails that we've received in the last week. One from somebody in the States asking which airport we recommend flying into, and one from Sweden from two guys asking some...
26th Jan 2012 The Best Festival Trailer Ever?
Last week I blogged about the popularity of the 2012 ShAFF trailer (produced by Alastair Lee of Posing Productions). It’s currently had 66,780 hits. Phenomenal, and with the festival still over a month away it looks set...
17th Jan 2012 A Word On Premieres
As director of ShAFF one of the things I like to promote is the number of trailers that we screen in any given year. Obviously a true premiere is something that has never been screened in public anywhere in the world....
13th Jan 2012 Have We Gone Viral?
Late on Tuesday evening we posted the 2012 ShAFF trailer to Youtube. It’s a cracking film, edited by award winning filmmaker Al Lee of Posing Productions. Al was juggling editing and packing for an imminent trip to...
