David Nicholls
@DavidNWriter
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Sometime novelist (You Are Here, One Day, Us, Starter for 10) and screenwriter (Tess, Madding Crowd, The 7.39, Patrick Melrose). Insta - davidnichollswriter
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Joined November 2018
My new novel! 'You Are Here' is a love story on a long walk, about company and solitude, the city and the country, a chamber-piece but with mountains. I'm so proud of this one, which I hope is funny and warm and touching. Out April '24 @SceptreBooks
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It's 15th July, St Swithin's Day, 34 years since Em and Dex climbed Arthur's Seat, and I wanted to drop in and say a huge thank you to all the readers, booksellers, publishers and now viewers. I'm hugely grateful to the team who made the show with such care and passion, and.
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It’s #StSwithinsDay, which means that it’s 33 years since Dexter and Emma went back to her Edinburgh flat after graduation. Happily, it’s a bright, fine new morning with absolutely no chance of rain. Thanks to all the readers over the last twelve years. #OneDay @HodderBooks
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Just a note to say I'm signing off social media for Christmas, signing back in, signing off, signing in just to delete the app, reinstalling the app, signing in then signing off. See you again in about forty minutes.
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London, I love you but I did just slip on a dead rat.
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My first time in the west of Ireland and it's really quite something.
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If I could have my time over again, I don't think I'd bother trying to get wifi on a train.
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Finally, I have found my sport.
Japan has been holding precision walking competitions since 1966. Mesmerizing.
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I couldn't sleep again so surrendered and went for a very early ride. The city looked lovely.
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It's #StSwithinsDay, somehow 35 years since Em and Dex climbed Arthur's Seat and just over a year since we started filming our epic @NetflixUK adaptation. We're nearly but I do want to say a big thank you to the great #OneDay team, and to Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall who are SO.
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For his birthday, my son had nine boys over for a sleepover and the smell of Lynx and old pizza boxes this morning is making my eyes burn.
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Shortly after taking this photo I walked into this lamppost.
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I've lived in London for nearly 30 years and never been to @HighgateCemeter so today I put that right, went for a soulful walk and it was quite beautiful (and yes, I did wear a big coat with the collar up like a U2 album cover from 1981 what of it #goodtimes
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I am at the airport which means my personality has changed. Ruthless, dead-eyed, full of quiet rage, poised like a panther at the door of the airport bus, relentless in my pursuit of overhead baggage space.
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I got the call! A thrill to be on Desert Island Discs, a pleasure to talk to @laurenlaverne. This Sunday.
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Every now and then I remember this footage of the great Maria João Pires realising that she's learned the wrong piano concerto, literally face-palming then deciding to play it anyway.
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Well, not what I expected. Quite overwhelmed. Thank you for the kind messages.
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Deep breath. Here it is, the trailer for #OneDay, our epic story about love and friendship. @ambikamod, Leo, the whole cast are great and I'm hugely grateful to the team. All 14 eps (!) drop on @NetflixUK 8th Feb. We love it and hope you will too. @HodderBooks @DramaRepublic
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Sometimes you need to spend time together, to see why you’re falling apart. Us, adapted from the best-selling David Nicholls novel, is coming soon to @BBCOne and @BBCiPlayer.
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Thank you for all the lovely messages over the weekend. I'm going to change the subject soon, but one last #OneDay thing; here's my own imaginary mixtape, the kind of thing Emma would have sent Dex (though it's too long ). A sort of musical mood-board -
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I realise that I'm at an age where I'm meant to buy a sports car or an expensive bike, but I’ve just got myself an 8-sheet cross-cut paper shredder and I don’t think I’ve ever felt so new, so powerful and alive.
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In a cafe, asked to watch someone’s stuff while they go to the loo and immediately I am taut, eyes darting, a panther. Their stuff WILL be safe.
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Always feel a bit sad when I tick the 'Remember Me' box on login and the website doesn't remember me. Was there something I could have said, something I could have done differently?.
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Just spent several hours cooking stuffed, poached then pan-fried ballotine of chicken and it tasted EXACTLY like what you eat on a plane when they've run out of the beef and the ravioli.
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It's 15th July which means it's now 34 years since Emma and Dexter stumbled up Arthur's Seat and once again I'm hugely grateful to all #OneDay's readers over the years, all the publishers and of course the team at @HodderBooks, editor Nick Sayers and Al OIiver's design team for -.
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If I go to bed any earlier I'll be getting up before I go to bed.
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Even in the streaming age, broadcast days are fretful but I do hope you enjoy #Us tonight and that it says something to you about family, love and loss, science and art and beautiful Europe. I'm hugely grateful to @DramaRepublic @bandstandprods @BBCOne and the wonderful cast and
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It's my birthday so I'm going to wear my new jumper and socks and go for a long bike ride then shout at The Undoing (rhymes with 'boing').
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I made a run for it. My first time out of the city since February and it's exhilarating. I've given myself three days to get from Grange-over-Sands to Penrith via Helvellyn, fuelled by scampi and chips and granola bars. This is Morecambe Bay from Hampsfell.
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Vivid Dream Report: I've been living at Kate Bush's semi-detached house, listening to her new album, which is very sad and piano-based but tuneful (I can't remember the tunes) Kate's well but a little frail and I had to give her a piggy-back round the big Sainsburys.
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It feels like a novel gets finished three or four times, and I know my family are bored of me demanding to celebrate, but page proofs are in now. No more meddling, it's (almost, almost) done. Out in April, unless I insist on one more pass.
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Fellow authors, if you've lost out on live events and your publication day is looming, let me know and I will gladly RT when the time comes. My DMs are now open and I love getting DMs.
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I admit, I was sceptical about the claims of election-rigging but this IS persuasive.
a drunk woman is trump team’s star witness in michigan
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@chelseabwrites Ooh, boy, too many to share. The one where the bookshop staff kindly pretended to be customers so I wouldn't feel too bad, that stays with me.
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My birthday today. Mid-to-late-fifties now but I spent the day working with brilliant people on our new One-Day series. Now cooking pasta with family and then I'm going to oblige them to watch French black-and-white films. So all good, all fine.
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I'm going to be hosting a series of virtual book launches for writers who've lost out. They'll be on Thursday but here's an extra party for books from the last couple of weeks. The white wine is warm, there's a bowl of dry-roasted peanuts. No red wine on the carpet, please. So.
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On a long bike ride and suddenly came across a great field of pumpkins, all artificial Tic-Tac orange and suddenly it was autumn in a Charles Schultz cartoon.
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Am about to open a new document, the first new project for two years and every single word in it is going to be absolutely right and in the perfect place.
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Oh hello. I missed people so have come back to see what you've done with the place. Let's see if I can be here AND work and read books.
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We're all phenomenally proud of our @NetflixUK adaptation of #OneDay - first look below! @ambikamod and Leo are glorious as Em and Dex. All 14 - 14! - episodes available on 8th Feb. We love this show and hope you will too. More photos below, trailer to come soon!
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Hello again. Got covid, too wiped out to work or read, thought I'd log back on here, you know, to relax. Didn't quite think it through.
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I had to pace the streets while it was on, but it was a huge pleasure to do Desert Island Discs. Thank you for the lovely messages. It's here too -
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So I put a sunflower seed in soil and it grew into a sunflower and I'm so amazed and surprised that I feel like I've actually invented farming
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For those who wanted to watch #PatrickMelrose but felt thwarted by subscriptions, all five episodes are now available to watch entirely FREE, courtesy of #RadioTimes. Years in the making but I'm very proud of it. Please do dive in.
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I miss warm wine on an empty stomach so, with bookshops still closed, I'm bringing back our #TwitterBookLaunch parties for January. Authors, publicists, If you've a book out this month, or last year's hbk going into pbk, DM me for a shout-out on Thursdays. Defrost the prawns!.
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At Tokyo airport. An amazing trip but the flight is at 2am. Thankfully, there’s this shop.
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Look! This is exciting - Douglas and Connie in the flesh.
Here's your first look at Tom Hollander and Saskia Reeves as Douglas and Connie Petersen in upcoming @BBCOne drama #Us, a four-part adaptation of David Nicholls' (@davidnwriter) best-selling novel. More info 👉
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Just used this retractable claw device to unblock the kitchen sink and I think, on reflection, that this is probably the most productive, enjoyable and satisfying thing I've done this year.
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The proofs are here and they’re lovely. Very grateful to the team at @SceptreBooks for making my them look so special.
Yup. Proofs are here. Yup. They have a die cut. Yup. This is @DavidNWriter’s best work yet. Coming in April from @SceptreBooks.
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I'm not sure if it warrants a klaxon, but I have a new novel coming out. It's called 'Sweet Sorrow' and it's about first love and friendship, family and growing-up, the usual stuff. #SweetSorrow
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Publication day for #SweetSorrow. This one is about first love, lost summers, flawed parents, Shakespeare, small town frustrations, teenage angst, long summers, 1997, school discos, the tug of nostalgia, the dangers of garage glasses and the value of friendship. .
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Because it was the last chance for a while I went for a walk around the peaceful, beautiful @NationalGallery. Like all the museums, the theatres, the cinemas and restaurants, it's a place that I've taken entirely for granted. When we can come back, we'll be back all the time.
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It’s such a beautiful autumn day that I’ve gone on a spontaneous bike trip to eerie, beautiful Dungeness and Jarman’s Prospect Cottage.
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A sleepless night but thank you for the lovely messages about #Us. The novel means a great deal to me and I hope we made something that complements rather than replaces it. The show gets more emotional (and better) as it goes along - by ep4 it's Bergman-with-jokes - but ep2 has a.
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First DM here this morning was someone offering their services as a ghost writer and I must admit, for the first time in my life, I was sorely tempted.
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4 hours in, I'm on 'C' and have gone from 'books are our best friends, magical ships, gateways to another world' to 'what's the point, it all just gets thrown away when you die.'
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Through some freak trick of time, #ONEDAY is ten years-old and so here it is in its reissued gold birthday suit. As an added bonus, like those cereal boxes that used to come with a free gift, the new edition also has an excerpt from #SweetSorrow, out in July.
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@salihughes Colin Firth went to my sixth-form, though he is, of course, much, much older than me. They were still talking about him though, like some departed god.
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These things are temporary and arbitrary, and we'll see what happens TOMORROW but I'm so proud of this show and all the talented people involved. Whatever happens, it has been a blast and we hope you love it as much as we do.
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This is characteristically witty and self-deprecating and also just a little Douglas-esque #Us.
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Bookshops! You're back! We've missed you! I'm going on a wild spree later this week but good luck today and thank you for your hard work and perseverance in these hair-raising times #ChooseBookshops #Bookshopsareback.
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. to Nicole Taylor and her script team, all at @dramarepublic @SceptreBooks @CurtisBrownLtd and of course Ambika and Leo, best possible Dex and Em. I count myself extremely lucky to work with such wonderful friends and colleagues. Hoping for a dry St Swithin's Day. Thank you!
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That's it, that's all, thank you all so much for watching. Here, before bed, are some of the highlights from the soundtrack, including @olijulian's compositions and that beautiful final song. Thanks to all the cast and crew. Goodnight! #UsBBC #Us.
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Hope you'll forgive the self-indulgence but if you've run out of TV, 'Patrick Melrose' is still lurking on NowTV/Sky, Apple etc. It's sometimes quite a tough watch, as you'd expect, but we're very proud of this one and the acting from all is wonderful.
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Very pleased to announce that we're bringing the Petersen Grand Tour to the TV screen #Us.
Tom Hollander, Saskia Reeves, Sofie Gråbøl to star in #Us, David Nicholls’ adaptation of his bestselling novel for @BBCOne >> @DavidNWriter
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As a TV-obsessed kid, the new Radio Times was the highlight of my week (I was strange) so it's a particular thrill to see the Petersens on the front cover and inside. Thanks, @RadioTimes! @BBCOne #Us
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Sorry not to see it there in person, but #SweetSorrow made it all the way to Times Square @HMHbooks @amazonbooks
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I've just noticed our 'Madding Crowd' is on @BBCFour tonight. It seems like an age since I wrote this script, but I loved working with brilliant Thomas Vinterberg and Carey Mulligan, @michaelsheen and the cast are great. It's on @BBCiPlayer if you're in the UK -
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For the last four Sundays I've paced nervously while #Us #BBCUs goes out. There's no fifth episode tonight but it's all there on @BBCiPlayer in the UK and will be for a while. In the meantime, I'm very grateful to @CandiceC_W for this lovely mention.
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I've been on Twitter for a while now and still haven't quite shaken off the desire to end each tweet with 'Best Wishes'.
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36 years, not 34! 36. Where's that edit button when you need it.
It's 15th July, St Swithin's Day, 34 years since Em and Dex climbed Arthur's Seat, and I wanted to drop in and say a huge thank you to all the readers, booksellers, publishers and now viewers. I'm hugely grateful to the team who made the show with such care and passion, and.
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I'm at my desk, nose peeling slightly, and feeling very Back-To-School. I have a new geometry set, a scientific calculator that I don't understand and one of those long plastic wallets of 30 felt-tip pens in all-known colours and I'm ready to work.
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Once a year I go on a long solo walk and this one’s a beauty; the Cleveland Way, across the N York moors and down the coast, eating nothing but pub scampi and wine gums. Day 1, near Riveaux Abbey.
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Another landmark - some very cool proofs of You Are Here, still a temp cover, cut-outs and all, courtesy of the brilliant team at @SceptreBooks @HodderBooks. Signing hand is now a claw, but it's all very exciting.
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Strong push from me to get ‘’Normal People’ with less shagging’ on the cover next time round @HodderBooks @HMHbooks.
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@LisaMMcGee Wrote this and deleted it once already but here goes. As a student actor I worried out loud that I might not be attractive enough to make it as a professional and my friend told me not to worry, there are LOADS of successful ugly actors.
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The wild meadow growing in the bodywork is wilting in the heat and now I wonder if I should water the car.
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Cover reveal! The forthcoming #SweetSorrow pbk has a new look. Authors are sometimes wary of faces on the cover but Natasha Law has done a brilliant job of capturing Charlie and that woozy, nostalgic, lost-summer mood. The book's about first love, youth and age, Shakespeare and-
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I can’t resist, it’s happening, I’m reordering the bookshelves and trying to imagine the circumstances when I’m ever going to read an 800 page biography of Edmund Burke.
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It's publication week, so likely to get a little me-me-me. I'm just going to post one review, from yesterday's Observer, because it might be the best review I ever have.
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Friends know how much I love very long, soulful solo walks, part-Wordsworth, part-Adrian Mole. I've not gone for years but today's walk from Cartmel to Ambleside was a beauty. I was about to post photos of my feet, which look like gnarled ham hocks, but here's Windermere instead.
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Here's the trailer for #Us. It's about beginnings and endings, parents and children, art and science, hope, disappointment, Europe and the decline of the breakfast buffet. It's funny, sad and made by a brilliant team. @BBCOne @DramaRepublic @bandstandprods
Sometimes you need to spend time together, to see why you’re falling apart. Us, adapted from the best-selling David Nicholls novel, is coming soon to @BBCOne and @BBCiPlayer.
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I really miss walking. This was the year I'd set aside for great long hikes, the Lakes and the Beacons and the Northumberland coast. Blisters! It's the least of many worries but as soon as we're out of this it's going to be friends first then an orgy of Ordnance Survey maps.
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Delighted to say that #SweetSorrow is going to be a Radio 4 Book at Bedtime in July, produced by the excellent @waterscompany and read by @jginorton, who does it beautifully and is charming. Here’s a photo of one of the most intriguing actors of his generation with James Norton.
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Misty, autumn-coloured memories.
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In truth I tried Twitter once before, many years ago and it ended badly. But this is exciting! It's like 2004 all over again! And I'm sure it's much more relaxed here now.
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I've always disliked donuts but I've just eaten two of these from St John bakery and now I'm having to re-evaluate my beliefs @SJRestaurant
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I just found my first synopsis for this book, dated Sept 2006. It was called 'Twenty Years' and told the story of Tom and Kelly, so it seems like writing really IS rewriting. Ebooks aren't for everyone but #OneDay is on special offer today.
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I'm mainly on Insta now (davidnichollswriter) but wanted to say a huge thank you for all the #OneDay responses. I'm so grateful to this team. And if you're wondering about the songs, here's an updated official list. Music supervisor brilliant @mrmattbiffa .
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Nature notes, and here's an update on the wildflower meadow we're growing in the bodywork of our parked car. There are chiffchaffs nesting in the glove compartment. Life finds a way.
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Delighted by the six #BAFTATV nominations for #PatrickMelrose, and to find ourselves nestling amongst so many fine programmes. Particularly pleased to see #BenedictCumberbatch nominated for that incredible performance. Thank you, @BAFTA.
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If I could have my life again, I think I'd spend less time trying to get the internet to work on trains.
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Here's something about writing 'One Day' which, if you were very quick, might make a perfectly Valentine's Day gift (though 'Sweet Sorrow' would work too).
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If you're interested in screenwriting, here's a great resource, a free library of scripts from @bbcwritersroom, film, comedy, drama. Delighted 'Us' is there, as well as work by @jackthorne, @PhelpsieSarah, @russelldavies63, @mrneilforsyth. Read and watch.
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