Nicole Manktelow

The joys of a city in lockdown for the APEC summit - lots of big toys making big noise!
And lots of office workers glued to their windows to watch the show (and snap pictures like these on their mobiles).
This is from outside my office window, yesterday.

Some cameramen are funny aren’t they? This is a snapshot cinematographer Tony Wilson took during the making of our short film Cold Feet (on set in the morgue). The L-plates were his idea.

It’s taken us a while longer that we hoped, but it’s so close to finished now. The music is composed, we’ve just […]

What’s an English summer without a little mud and music? I’ll remember this year’s V Festival for Radiohead, Richard Branson, my friends Rich, Kerry & Neale, Mark & Rebecca and Gerry & Jo, lost mobiles, commando green floral ‘wellie’ boots and the flu that one gets after spending two days running about in a paddock […]

I hate winter. Here’s to memories of warmer days.

A barbed wire fence encloses the old St John’s Church, one of the few beautiful buildings in my old home town.

Windswept and eerie, The Pinnacles are stark against a bright blue sky and distant ocean. In some directions these imposing structures seemed to spread out forever, like an alien forrest, or bizarre tombstones.
They’ve got sharp and craggy features, but there’s also amazing smoothness from centuries of erosion. Even the loose grains of sand underfoot are […]