Paul Olding's Blog Thingie

kitchen confusion

polding — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:52:44 +0000

so, we are having a brand new kitchen fitted and we decided that we needed to save a bit of cash to be able to upgrade to better work tops etc. So we got the builder to return the fitted washign machien (to be replaced with freestanding) and the stupidly expensive ‘majic corner’, and it turns out that now our kitchen will be more much expensive cos I don’t know why

Psittacosaurus

polding — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:32:38 +0000

Just trying to write a dramatic scene where a Psittacosaurus (parrot lizard) dinosaur gets eaten by a mammal…

What time is it?

polding — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:30:40 +0000

My film ‘what time is it’ with prof brian cox is showing in bangkok next week at a science film festival

Taxi at Falstaff Film Festival

polding — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:29:35 +0000

Our short film TAXI was part of the opening strand on saturday nov 14th at the Falstaff Film Festival in Stratford upon Avon

New all singing all dancing blog

polding — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:49:15 +0000

So with the new look blog.com interface, goignt o try and make a go of this blogging thing. So expect more and more regularly…Have virtually finished the 7 Wonders of the solr system film. Just final spit and polish stuff to do. Started on new project for BBC science about dinosaurs. Looking for new scripts for Bongo Reef’s 2010 project. And Oldingmanor vineyard has successfully bottled 20 bottles this year, in year 2 of the vineyard, which is nice.

back from filming

polding — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:53:07 +0000

Am back from filming around the world for 7 wonders of the solar system and now in the edit tryign to put the beast together

Back from filming

polding — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:48:43 +0000

Am now back from filming around the world for BBC series 7 wonders of the solar system. Now in the edit trying to put the beast together…

Olding and Cox currently filming in India

polding — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:04:22 +0000

Am back on the road with Prof Cox. We are filming in India. Started out in Pune, drove down to Mahabaleshwar and will be heading up to Mumbai tomorrow, then out to Varanasi. Filming the Deccan Traps lava flood plains and filming the total solar eclipse, all for a brand new bbc tv series called ‘7 wonders of the solar system’. Have a peak at some videos at www.youtube.com/bongoreef

Prof Cox and Dr Olding soon back on the road

polding — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:16:08 +0000

Prof Brian Cox and Dr Olding will soon be back on the road again. It has been almost a year since we set off to understand “what time is it?”. Now tackling “the 7 wonders of the solar system” with the first stop being India and the Deccan Traps. Behaind the scenes video blog coming soon.

Darwin’s Dangerous Idea

polding — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:18:13 +0000

Latest film with Andrew Marr called Darwin’s Dangerous Idea - watch it on I-Player (in the UK) at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jdcyd/Darwins_Dangerous_Idea_Life_and_Death/