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Archie

The Noddy Diaries

About Me

Actor, playing age mid-twenties, latest job playing Big Ears in UK numero uno national tour of Noddy. That's right, Noddy.Watch this space for the Noddy Diaries 2007.Other pursuits: trivial pursuit, scrabble, pomerol, rupert's cooking, text messaging.Create or get your
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My Interests

scrabble, pomerol, rupert's cooking, text messaging.

I'd like to meet:

Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Perkins, Rachmaninov, Philip K Dick, Marylin Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, David Lynch, Marlene Dietrich, Kate Moss, Michaela Strachan, David Bowie

Music:

Aphex Twin, Rachmaninov, Kraftwerk, Philip Glass, Make Way for Noddy theme tune, Survivor, Led Zep, Black Sabbath, Manics, Jazz, Rollins, FourTet and most lately (revival) the long beautiful crescendo provided by Gorecki

Movies:

Exorcist, Lost Highway, Dead Man's Shoes, Hitchcock, Happiness, Rosemary's Baby, Kes, Italian For Beginners (thanks Hanne), Audition, Visitor Q, Anything with Dirk Bogarde

Television:

Newsnight, Channel 4 News, News 24, Panorama, Question Time, Brass Eye

Books:

Tolstoy, Garcia Marquez, Nabokov, Shakespeare, Robert Graves, Atomised was good...thanks Petra

Heroes:

Dirk Bogarde

My Blog

on through the suburbs

Dear EnidLong absence of correspondency due to overly protracted period of despondency. There's something about the nomadic life that gives you the unsettling feeling that your life is not entirely y...
Posted by Archie on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:14:00 PST

Week 3 - Riotous reception in Redhill

Dear Enid I'm pleased to report that our first three performance at the Harlequin theatre in Redhill, Surrey were received with critical acclaim.  At least that is my interperetation of the cacop...
Posted by Archie on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:54:00 PST

1 day left at not so depressingville

It all depends on your experience, you see today was fine, most tolerable.  There was one major fight but even that was stress free.  A year 10 girl objected to a boy turning off the lights ...
Posted by Archie on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:57:00 PST

3 days of depressingville left

Another soul sapping day, reached point of catatonia, standing at the front of the class in near perfect vegetative state.  I even replied to a student's compaint about the usual paper ...
Posted by Archie on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:45:00 PST

4 days of depressingville left

Supply teaching hell in beautiful Barking coming to a close, thank God  The kids are alright but en mass they can get ya down...
Posted by Archie on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:12:00 PST

Week2 - Being Big Ears

Dear EnidI have to say that being Big Ears and Mr Plod is a vastly underestimated skill. I say underestimated because when I tell people what I'm doing they invariably smile or even smirk, yes smirk....
Posted by Archie on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:34:00 PST

0 days left at not so depressingville

One of the key features of working as a supply teacher is the slowing down of time. When in a classroom, in the midst of utter chaos, ten minutes until the end of the lesson often feels like an hour ...
Posted by Archie on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:08:00 PST

Week 1: Gruelling week of rehearsals

Dear EnidFirstly, let me thank you for writing Noddy, in particular for creating the characters of Big Ears and Mr Plod. These latter two characters have provided me with eight months of paid work. ...
Posted by Archie on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:55:00 PST