Well, it's been a busy old year, with lots of time hanging around doctors, partly for another minor op on my arm, but mostly shooting for the NHS, which culminated in a day with Sir David Frost. Lots more interviews with researchers, hearing about the prospect of new treatments for cancers, type 2 diabetes and more. Always exciting and interesting to shoot with people at the leading edge of their field.

Also delivered the 5 training videos I was writing and directing for the University - on time and on budget, despite all the other stuff going on (like sudden trip to El Salvador in the middle of my edit time!) so I'm very pleased. The exceedingly bright people I was working for said they found the process of shaking all the ideas into tight scripts and then executing them exhausting but exhilarating. Which is a nice way to describe any good day at work, doing this job.

This last few weeks have been exaggeratedly hectic, as we've just moved house. It's a nice quiet cul-de-sac, just outside town and easy to get to, and it's hopefully the perfect spot to build a studio in 2010. We'll get things drawn up as soon as possible in January - hopefully a perfect, acoustically treated studio for film/video mixes and voice recording... and possibly we'll fit the band in at some point too.

Usually attributed to Martin Mull or Elvis Costello, "writing about music is like dancing about architecture" is an appealing enough aphorism that I've certainly said it a few times over the years. So just to demonstrate that those of us nodding sagely are a load of cynical old curmudgeons, my mate Monika has made a film in which she dances about architecture.

Time to finish "Grace" for Screen East this week, now that the lead actor had recovered her health. It was an incredibly cold couple of days outdoors in Cambridge this week, but we kept going as it was nice to see everyone again - and as demonstrated by the entirely sensible Henry Garrett in the picture above, the new cast cheered things up a bit too.