The world from my window

Sitting in a railway station...got a ticket to my destination. So, here I am, sitting in an old railway carriage. It's at Station Kitchen , West Bay, the home of Broadchurch and today, for one day only, Channel 5's  The Gadget Show . I'm being interviewed by Jon Bentley about the pros and cons of two very different mobile phones. I'm not really a techie person but p roducer/director Robert Murray emailed me out of the blue and asked me  to blog about the whole experience. Along with a photographer and a gamer, I'm being asked to test out a cheap phone and a not-so-cheap phone and see what results I get. This photo was taken on the Honor 6X.  And here's Jon, in the same pose (and researcher George, looking a bit bored), in a picture taken on the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.  You can judge the results for yourself. I'm also meant to be doing a little bit of blogging on each phone, having downloaded Blogger and WordPress apps. To be honest, I...

Broadchurch  fever is gripping the nation. Well, at least it seems like that around these parts. I'm sorry not to have written about anything else for The World from my Window over the last few weeks, but it's taking over my life. As part of my day job at Bridport Electric Palace , I've been involved in persuading series writer Chris Chibnall - soon to be chief writer for Doctor Who - to come along for a question and answer session following the live screening of the last-ever episode on Easter Monday, 17 April. The event sold out within days and everyone is very excited. It's a charity screening in aid of    Dorset Rape Crisis Support Centre and The Dorset Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC). Both organisations were consulted extensively throughout Chris’s writing process and on in to production. You can read more about that here . In the Grigg household, we're hooked on  Broadchurch .  I almost choked on my secret chocolate stash at the s...