Last night we went to see Walking with Dinosaurs – The live experience. I was quite impressed. They were very cleverly made and manipulated – not once did we see a collision – and the set was well done as well. The plants were air filled so that they “grew” around the stage – it [...]
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We went to see the Tiger Lillies on Monday night at The Verandah. It was truly “out there”. Groover was expecting three scantily clad women (I had wondered why he was so keen to go…) I didn’t really know what to expect. We met up with Mr Smartrider and his lovely wife Miss Lithuania and [...]
How about this for a fun project? I first heard about Book Magazine Book via Crazybrave’s blog. It’s not the first time I’ve signed up for one of these thangs – remember 1001 recipes? Or was it 101 recipes? I forget. Anyway the book never arrived. BMB sounds a little more creative…
I was lucky enough to be invited to the Eric Clapton concert tonight. The tickets were amazing – second row, centre. Eric Clapton does not look like a rock star. This was a concert for people who love great music not teenyboppers looking for eye candy.. He’s what 60? He looks like an old man. [...]
Yes I am an Austen tragic. I just love her books and have read them all and I will be reading Persuasion again because I need to remind myself about Anne Elliot. Apparently I am she. “Let’s face it, you’re easily persuaded, especially when faced with choices that are or aren’t ‘the Elliot way.’ But [...]
I know that my hackles rise when someone disses my city and I try not to take it personally but I thought it an odd way to begin a concert last night by describing your host city as “quite nice”. What was that about? Dianne Reeves said she’d spent a little more time here than [...]
When political correctness led to Enid Blyton’s golliwogs being changed to goblins in her Noddy books in 1989, Norway objected as this was an insult to their trolls. Tee hee. And thanks to the Sunday Times for that little snippet.
Last night I watched the Golden Globes Awards and what struck me – apart from the dresses and how skinny all the girls were and how tall Geena Davis is… wow she really is tall – was how inarticulate Americans are, in particular Americans in the entertainment business whom you would expect to be witty [...]
I haven’t done a book review for a while but I’ve just finished Paul Auster’s “The Book of Illusions” and I’m inspired. It starts out as a story of grief. Our hero, David, loses his wife and two boys in a plane crash. One night – in a haze of alcoholic despair – he sees [...]
Last time I was selecting books down at my local library I spied To Kill a Mockingbird on the return trolley and having never got round to reading it, I picked it up. My impressions previously mostly stem from seeing an Eisteddford style dance routine at one of those school spectaculars on TV – in [...]
