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Hi, I’m Jimmy Thomson and I write scripts for TV, articles about film, property and travel for newspapers and magazines and occasional books (for Adults and Kids). If you’re interested in any of these things, have a dig around – you might find something to entertain you.
I tend to get a bit behind in this particular flight of egotistical fancy because I’m working and currently doing an Open University degree, and my spare online time is spent bringing my Flat Chat website up to speed. If that’s why you’re here, looking for words of wisdom about apartment living,  click on this link http://www.flat-chat.com.au. That’s  the place to be if you want to find the most recent examples of my trouble-making and attempts at problem solving in the area of strata living. Defending the rights of property owners isn’t exactly Robin Hood but we helped to get the law changed last year so that can’t be bad.

Anyway, the reason I set up a website in the first place was to try to show that there was more to me than whining about nasty developers and corrupt politicians (or vice versa). But now the apartment thing has flown the coop, like a grumpy adolescent who’s decided to set up home on their own while they still know everything.

My latest project, a true crime book (I’m nothing if not eclectic) came out at the end of March from Allen & Unwin.  The reaction I get from people when I tell them is amusing:  It goes from studiously unbothered: “Oh, you’re writing a book …huh?” through mildly impressed “Oh, you’ve written a book?” via moderately envious “Oh, you’ve got a publisher?” to gobsmacked “Oh, a real publisher?” So, just in case nobody else says it, I will:  “This book kicks serious arse.” Richard Walsh, God bless his Italian silk socks, said: “When you read it you can smell the hot dogs and onions on the Cross at night.”  But since he’s with the publisher and commissioned the book, he may be biased. Anyway, if you are interested, click on the cover picture and read more about it.

So this is all of the rest of me. There’s a bit more room to move and everything doesn’t have to be so damned serious.  And as long as I resist the temptation to send myself abusive emails, I should be all right.
Jimmy Thomson, March 2009

Mac and Pepper at about 8 weeks