Much as I enjoyed that history book, and many other non-fiction books, I’m glad to be back reading only fiction for a bit. I have just started reading the Maf the Dog book and had not got beyond page three before coming across the sort of good writing that makes reading such a joy sometimes. […]
Entries from March 28th, 2011
State of Emergency
March 28th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Life, Politics
It took a while to get there, but I have just finished reading State of Emergency, The Way We Were: Britain 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook. It is a real door-step of a book, about 5cm thick in hardback and I have started and finished reading several other books since I started this before Christmas, but […]
Me and Liz Taylor
March 23rd, 2011 · Comments Off on Me and Liz Taylor · Life
It was a while after I heard about Liz Taylor’s death that I remembered the time I met her and how it was splashed across the pages of the tabloids. I’m not sure, but it might have even been on the front page of one of them. If so it must have been a slow […]
Tags: Newspapers·Nostalgia·Theatre
Operation:Endgame
March 20th, 2011 · Comments Off on Operation:Endgame · Life
This evening we sat down to watch a DVD that Amazon kindly sent us – Operation:Endgame.  Having heard nothing about it, I wasn’t expecting much, but it turned out to be hugely enjoyable with some great performances, notably from Rob Cordory Here is what I wrote about it:
Mega Piranha
March 17th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Life
Conscious that I am failing miserably to watch more TV this year, I watched a few programmes I had recorded on V+ tonight, including the nail-biting quarter-final of University Challenge between Oxford Brookes and York. After that I had a quick look on the EPG and saw that the film Mega Piranha was just starting […]
Black
March 16th, 2011 · Comments Off on Black · Life
Last week I watched a film called Black. I knew nothing about it beforehand, but really enjoyed it. Plenty of action, and it didn’t outstay its welcome at all. Here is what I wrote about it on Amazon.
Yet another fire
March 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Yet another fire · Life
I see there is yet another fire at the Japanese power station, and continuing stories of the destruction and hardships across large parts of the country. I’m not sure why, but a while ago I started to become a lot more aware, consciously, of how fragile and complicated the infrastructure is that supports even a […]
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Mistaken identity
March 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Mistaken identity · Life
Today the BBC website has a story of police idiocy on a par with when the Irish police had Prawo Jazdy at the top of their most-wanted list. Basically, the police an address more than 40 times in 18 months by mistake. It seems they were getting calls to a house in Repton Grove but […]
Have HMV given up?
March 8th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Life
I went into Crawley’s HMV the other day. What a shock that was. There is now a huge space devoted to electronic gadgets: iPads, PlayStations, iPods, etc. and naturally rafts of expensive accessories for all of them. It is all very nicely laid out too – low counters with lots of these toys on display […]
Soaring petrol prices…
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Soaring petrol prices… · Politics
According to the Guardian Soaring petrol prices push commuting costs higher than mortgages, which I find worrying despite having neither commuting costs nor a mortgage.  Of course I could point out that car drivers will now have a chance to see what rail commuters have been putting up with for years – and for anybody […]
Tags: Doom and gloom
