Tonight it was announced that my love-labour, The Devil's Plantation is nominated in the Interactive Category for the 2010 BAFTA New Talent Awards. Needless to say I'm delighted. But I'm also very pleased for my only competitor, a wonderful woman, Helen Jackson, from Binary Fiction whose website The Lost Book, I actually stumbled on last year. And a very good site it is too. I reckon she'll win, and I mean...

Dodging the rush hour queues, my pulse races faster than the traffic. I'm on my way to Cineworld, Renfrew Street, said to boast the largest attendance figures of any European cinema. The ground on which it stands is, in my mind, more vivid as the site of Green's Playhouse and the Apollo Centre, a famed music venue that earned its keep by screening the occasional film.

Here I once went on a doomed double date with my sister and two...