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The Good Ship Murder (Season 1, Episode 5)

Watch me show off a poker face in The Good Ship Murder on Channel 5 with Catherine Tyldesley (Coronation Street) and Shayne Ward (Coronation Street and X-Factor…yes, that Shayne Ward 👇)

I love it when an audition specifically calls for a South African accent (my own) and was absolutely chuffed to land the role of Keith Lomax, the Bitcoin-billionaire with a penchant for high-stakes poker. Lomax is eccentric, high status and a little dangerous – so it was a lot of fun preparing the role (and maybe playing a little more poker than was strictly necessary). It was also great getting to work with prolific TV director, Steve Hughes, who gave a masterclass in calm efficiency while on a very tight turnaround.

On set from left to right: Florin Piersic Jr (Nikolai Volkov), Jeffrey Mundell (Keith Lomax), Jacqueline Boatswain (Wendy Weston), Douglas Rand (Lee Stanard) and Rahul Arya (BL Zeebub)

Shayne Ward and Catherine Tyldesley lead the cast as an unlikely duo who team up to solve a spate of murders, with a host of other recognisable faces joining them for the eight-episode drama, which kicked off on Friday 13th October.

It was quite the adventure, filming a TV show on a working cruise liner alongside hundreds of passengers. My cabin was high up near the bow of the Virtuosa with a little balcony overlooking the sea – brilliant for watching dolphins skip across sunset swells or for staring into the mesmerising oil-blue ocean heaving below.

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Best not block the exit

Williams as Monroe in My Week With Marilyn, 2011

“Acting sometimes reminds me of therapy in that the more you talk about a traumatic or profound event, the more it loses its emotional tension. The trick is to live in so much mystery, to rely on a feeling, an instinct, on faith, really, that everything I need is already inside me, and best I just don’t block the exit.”

– Michelle Williams (New York Times, Sept. 4, 2008)

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Norfolk nagatives? I don’t think so.

Finally got new chemicals to develop my Norfolk pics.

Some things went wrong: the exposure and weird vignetting is less problematic than the mottled effect down the sides of the negatives – not sure if this was a result of the expired film stock, bad chemicals, residues on my equipment, hard water, etc, etc…will take some figuring out as per usual. Still, I enjoyed these snaps.

We weren’t sure about visiting North Norfolk, had never been and wanted to see. We found a superb semi-wild campsite, Barley Fields, that was quite the perfect escape from bustling London. We also came across top-notch fish and chips shops, searched for fossils on the loooong beach at Runting, found scrumptious local honey, characterful towns like Sheringham, and every kind of weather. Something we also noticed – North Norfolk is an incredibly neat and tidy part of the country – the towns seem manicured, shops are spotless, public gardens are ship shape, lawns and verges are neatly mowed and there is no litter. Simple things make a big difference.

Anyway, the black-and-whites are Ilford Ortho Plus run through a battered Minolta Autocord and the colour is Fuji C200 through a Nikon FE with Ais lenses (processed at Aperture in London).