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Laurence was born in March in the market town of Ashford in Kent. He starred as Nelson's Dad in a school play when he was 5 (this is important for later so make a note) but forgot his lines on the night his Mum came to see him. Apart from the removal of a kidney a year later, not a great deal happened until he left school and joined the Army. He got thrown out after four weeks for only having one kidney and so the laughable pantomime that became his adult life began. At 19 he started writing for Just 17 magazine, then BIG! Magazine (both of which are now out of print) and did bits & pieces for Smash Hits, More, Looks and some other women's titles. He then worked for The Disney Club, a Sunday morning kids TV show, then What's Up Doc, a Saturday morning kid's TV show as a music researcher (band booker). After this he worked for 5 years in the record industry (WEA), met all his heroes and blew any chance of ever being excited about anything again. After a 2 year stint at the BBC devising programmes for Kevin Greening and Terry Wogan, gruelling around in the mud at Glastonbury and learning how to edit, laurence worked for TWi for 5 years before redundancy beckoned and sent him back to Ashford for a year off. Having spunked all his cash on a failed plumbing business, he then found himself back in TV in Norfolk, home of Nelson, and presumably his Dad who Laurence once played in a school play when he was 5 (although he forgot his lines the day his Mum came to see him...) Funny how things come full circle eh? After a year coming up with television programme ideas he decided to move once again and went home to Kent. He now has his own production unit and makes music promos for bands of all ilks and sizes as well as writing freelance for many publications in that there London. He is unmarried but in a happy relationship, has two Jack Russell terriers and an unhealthy infatuation with Sylvester Stallone. he never meant to write about himself in the third person, it was just hard to stop once he'd started... a bit like smoking.
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A Maze ing Plaice

So last night a good friend of mine was over from America. He wanted to take a few of us out to dinner and it was decided that we’d all meet in Maze, one of Gordan Ramsey’s London restaura...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:11:00 GMT

A Sublime Tolerance for the Failings of Man

Blimey, haven't done this for a while - it's a bit dusty in here...As I stood at the train station this morning and watched as numerous commuters blocked the doors and barriers while untangling their ...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:02:00 GMT

Cardamon, Carrots and Carnaby Corpses...

So here I am in London and I think I may have stumbled across the best kept business secret since Cardamon Pod's wife decided to stock biscuit tins for dogs. I'm killing time because I arranged a meet...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:37:00 GMT

2007 A Space Moddity

On the way home yesterday from my birthday weekend, a successful event that saw me home by 9pm on the day and 'doing a Talbot' by 11pm I decided that as it was such a glorious sunny day I'd drop the...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:11:00 GMT

The Re-occuring Question of Guilemotts Lineage.

I've been wrestling with this one for a while. I bought the Guillemots' album, Through the Windowsausage last year and it has been in my CD player pretty much constantly but it's always bugged me...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:25:00 GMT

Out for a browse

Right! Because my Dog Dream has made one of my international friends upset I have to now write a happy story to redress the balance... Hmmm, can't think of one right now but I do have an amusing anecd...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:12:00 GMT

Hooked

I saw this in today's Times and thought, well if you're going to go around putting hooks into fishes mouths eventually you'll get yours...Fisherman impaled by giant fish as it leapt across boatA FISH...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:13:00 GMT

Porridge

No not the much maligned 70's comedy starring Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckensdale and Fulton MacKay. I mean this porridge...The much maligned breakfast of the Scotch, that evokes memories of a mush in ...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:08:00 GMT

Consumerism down the Toilet

So there I was doing the weekly shop last night, I say weekly shop but it had in fact been about two weeks since I braved the isles of Tesco due to the fact I had a leak in my bathroom that had rotted...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:04:00 GMT

In Dreams

Had an odd dream last night that I'm thinking of making into a short film. It went like this. A dog is sitting buy the side of the road watching & waiting, people & cars pass by but the dog do...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:02:00 GMT