'The bit where he walks across the screen'

It was also great to catch up with another old mucker in Thailand: Alexander Reynolds. When we were at journalism college in Clerkenwell I don't think either of us ever expected we would one day be watching Hazell DVDs together in Bangkok (Which bit do you like best? 'The bit where he walks across the screen')! In between writing for the Torygraph, Alex is training for some upcoming professional Muay Thai (Thai boxing) bouts and working on a book about US jails, which, if the bits of the draft I read are anything to go by, will be extremely entertaining. Cult film fans may be interested to know that it is the same Alexander Reynolds who penned 'Carpet Garden Flowers', the darkly funny tale (based on a true story) of Notting Hill coke scum trying to bury a comatose diabetic drug dealer in their garden. In a prescient piece of casting, the ill-fated Holby City star George Calil (whose even more ill-fated girlfriend, Laura Sadler, fell to her death while high on cocaine) took a lead role in the short. The film's other lead, the fantastic Guyanese singer/actor Sol Raye, sadly passed away a couple of months ago. 'Carpet Garden Flowers' may not be his usual cup of tea, but it stands as one of Raye's many fine legacies to the world of entertainment.