Breakfast with a Hobbit

Trés early (8am) Breakfast Meeting at Frangos & Frangos. With Martin Freeman no less; star of The Office (UK) and now brilliantly cast as Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, currently being filmed in New Zealand.  Martin has flown into Hepburnshire for the day to talk about my screenplay, To Daylesford, with Love. It’s still very preliminary so MUST NOT get hopes up.

Frangos & Frangos feels suitably appropriate for a meeting between famous shaggy-haired hobbit and Prada-clad writer. Taking cues from downtown Memphis (but with Australian baristas & world-best coffee), it’s so Rock ‘n’ Roll here, Ronnie Wood could walk in with Kate Moss and no-one would notice. Before any serious chatting begins, Martin insisted that we both have a hearty meal. I couldn’t work out if this was Method Acting to the Extreme (It’s well known that Hobbits love a good breakfast. To the extent that they have first and second breakfast. If by some awful misadventure, one of these breakfasts doesn’t appear, Hobbits get very grumpy!) Or, Martin was just really hungry...Read more