The blog that never was

This year the blog has lost its way, stuffed between the admin pressures running a business, finding new ways of promoting the company catalogue of films on Amazon, and just life that catches up with you. The last three months have been marred by a mystery problem of severe bowel pain and blood that was made by worse by eating raw rice grains at an event as far back as July. This week mid October, saw another return to hospital with blood in the toilet and severe abdominal pain.  Yet no diagnosis. More to be done to get the answers and some people will be asked questions about their conduct on the matter.

But this year has been good, because I got off to an early start by finishing the first episode of a projected TV series 12 part treatment on the heroic and bardic Irish legend Niall of the Nine Hostages. It remains to be seen by the big guys because I need a whopping big agent with muckle clout. ( Muckle is Scottish  word meaning very huge, enormous.) So here's me, asking, please go check me out for my long imdb track record here 

We will also soon be announcing the release date of the documentary called Walking With Elephants of Amazon Prime so do watch out for that. It was a mega trip to Africa by film director Robbie Moffat in 2018 that saw him get astounding footage of Elephants and a story log of the way they have been relegated to yet another dying species. It marks Palm Tree Film's entry into the extinction debate which it supports, to campaign for a change in the way pollution, plastic, petrol, and general waste of the planet resources have devastated wild life but also human life ultimately. Most people who ken me well will know the updates on the wildfire devastation, that I regularly put up on twitter to make sure no one forgets about them to create a mindfulness that we are all only a few steps away from destruction.

In line with this I'm developing a documentary about the way the consumer can avoid the substance of plastic in their households, in food creation in the kitchen to lead a life with out plastic as a method of boycotting it altogether. So we are Green Green Green. My film Going Green a fiction film about a family trying to change their life for the better without the Rat Race, can be seen on Amazon Prime here.

I also just finished writing a screenplay about the Scottish pioneer film maker Jenny Gilbertson, who made many films about the life of the Scottish Shetland Crofters as well as the community of Inuits in the Arctic of Canada. Her story is full of daring do, with her exploits filming off the Shetland cliffs, trips to the Canadian Prairies, followed her final days with the Inuits hunting Carabou, making her life a breathless travelogue of events that are laced with her own indomitable self belief that women can do things on their own. Pioneer Female Film Maker inspiring others to take up the Camera in successive generations - she was a remarkable tour de force.

So already this year has been a year of screenplays with another on the way based on the exploits of my grandfather in his adventures of World War Two.This screenplay I hope will not receive countless interruptions, illness and other catastrophy's in  the same way I have faced over the last 3 months. Here's hoping???

On top of all this I began some art projects in my 2nd year as an official contemporary Scottish artist and you can read how I became one here

Robbie is going ahead with his projects like a steam train on developing his proposed TV series on Robinson Crusoe so things are continuing there as he planned.

The highlight of the year was meeting Kiefer Sutherland in April at the Wales Comicon when we posed for a photo and I introduced myself as Myself saying Hi Im Mairi Sutherland and he said Hi Im Kiefer Sutherland, shall we do that again Ok - Im Mairi Sutherland, Im Kiefer Sutherland , so we just laughed and giggled together. Such a funny guy and in that moment I knew he understood the problems of the name Sutherland and the hassles that go along with it. Lol so sweet.

Im Mairi Sutherland - Im Kiefer Sutherland Photo

So far so good I'm not dead yet but it is no easy ride with hellish pain and fear of the next bout, but I decided to fight back and just make my own karmic revolution despite everything and everyone. Some folks dumped me on the way but those who know life is a hard journey do seem to stick with you even when things go West, because they know they will see you coming back. And on that score you stick with the people who don't give up on you and who carry on making plans regardless.

NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO