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Love Me or Leave Me

Yesterday I was at home all day and unusually neither my missus Gail nor our kids found me jobs round the house or for the grandchildren. So I sat down in my favourite armchair to see what the film channels had on offer. I was not disappointed as Film on Four scheduled Love me or Leave Me, The [...]

December 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

The flourishing of the artistic spirit

Last night I had dinner with a cultivated lawyer who is an aficionado of the art of the early Renaissance. He made the point that Masaccio, Brunoleschi, Ghiberti and Donatello flourished in a time of the Black Plague, internecine wars with other Republic City states and in the case of Donatello he [...]

December 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

ebooks v physical books

There was an interesting interview with James Daunt in the Financial Times on Saturday. Slowly he is turning around Waterstone which was in dire straits. This is important as Daunts, which he founded, and Waterstone which has a high street presence are vital for the selling and survival of physical [...]

December 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

An intriguing possibility?

Yesterday I drove to the south coast in order to spend the weekend with my father. Despite the waterlogged lawn and the evident puddles on many surrounding roads, the South-East has been experiencing some remarkably mild weather recently as December approaches. We spent the late morning sitting out [...]

November 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

Cruising with Scarlet at 45,000 feet

Having departed on Monday from Heathrow for a ten-day tour of Singapore and Australia acting as wingman for my aged father, he and I duly reached our first port of call yesterday after a flight of thirteen hours and have spent our time since resting and acclimatizing ourselves. It is apparently the [...]

November 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

Lamentation /CJ Sansom

Hilary Mantel has won acclaim for Wolf Hall  and Bring up The Bodies but I believe CJ  Sansom to be the better author on the England of Henry V111. His latest Lamentation features Matthew Shardlake the chancery lawyer who appears in all of his 6 Henry  v111 novels. This features two story [...]

November 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Third Man Tour

The Third Man is regarded as probably the finest British movie of the twentieth century. I would only put Zulu, Get Carter, The Long Good Friday, The Full Monty, Kind Hearts and Coronets and Lawrence of Arabia in the same bracket. I was always interested in doing the tour and required little [...]

November 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

Pointless but fun

Spotted on the website of the Daily Telegraph today, a possible source of reward and amusement – a review of some great episodes of Roy Plomley classic parlour game programme – DESERT ISLAND [...]

November 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

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Well fancy that!

At the end of a fairly hectic weekend, yesterday for want of anything better to do I prepared a light supper and settled down to watch BBC1’s Countryfile programme which was being transmitted at 6.30pm after the early evening news. It turned out to be a World War One special, with three of the [...]

November 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

Acker Bilk

I was sad to hear that Acker Bilk had passed away. Known for his bowler hat, striped waistcoat and goatee beard, he had a huge hit both sides of the Atlantic  with Stranger on the Shore. Indirectly he was responsible for one of the funniest put downs I have heard. I asked a musician friend if x [...]

November 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

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