At the moment I am feeling like Winston Smith, 1984. He had a sore on his leg that wouldn't go and I seem to have the same - extra strength antibiotics and stuff like that to clear it up. Goodness, all I did was decorate the front room. But, now here is a but, Winston Smith is, indeed a character in1984 (a famous Orwell book) and the first ever full length animation film made in the UK was Animal Farm (another Orwell book), and my first foray into animation life and writing was due to the fact that I worked downstairs from a man who ate lunch in the same Italian restaurant just round from Drury Lane every single day. He took me into his studio and showed me around and a new life unfolded. You see, he and his wife, Joy Batchelor, directed the film Animal Farm. His name was (because he died some time back) John Halas, and he changed my entire world, the way I looked at the world and the way I looked at life, thus the world turns, does it turn, does it go round and round on a storytelling axis? At the time I was single and looking for a girl with faraway eyes; these guys wrote the song, don't they look young here. I love this tongue-in-cheek vid, haven't we all felt like this at some time in our life, I did then, not now, 'well you know what kinda eyes you got...'
