The other day I was going through the EPG on the TV and saw that Arthur Penn’s classic Bonnie & Clyde was being shown in the small hours on one of the ITV channels so I set the box up to record it. Tonight I decided to watch it. I hadn’t seen it since I [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Life'
Blandings
January 21st, 2013 · No Comments · Life
I watched the first episode of the new adaptation of Blandings the other day. The predictable response from Wodehouse fans is to hate it because it is not as good as the books. I’m fortunate in having never got round to reading the Blandings books so I found it all very entertaining without having the [...]
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Dali
January 17th, 2013 · No Comments · Life
The other night I watched a programme about Salvador Dali. Sort of. I mean, it was about him; his name was in the title and was what would have drawn an audience, but it was also about Jack Bond who made a film about Dali in 1965. The programme was presented, written and directed by [...]
Death in Paradise
January 9th, 2013 · No Comments · Life
A new series of Death in Paradise started on TV tonight and just like last time I spent a whole hour wondering why I liked it so much when it contains everything I normally dislike about detective shows. Each episode follows a formula, which is the same formula used in so many shows. It starts [...]
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2012 and all that
January 8th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Life, Music
I thought I would end my un-noticed and un-remarked blogging hiatus with a few belated comments about 2012. On the whole I didn’t like it much. There were plenty of individual things I enjoyed but the overall experience was not great and that is partly because I spend a lot of my time at work [...]
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Remote overload
November 13th, 2012 · No Comments · Life, Technology
Last week Jayne treated me to some new toys as a 50th birthday present. She said she wanted to get me something special, but I really couldn’t think of anything I wanted. It isn’t that I have everything, just that I have everything I want. She suggested a new PC that I wouldn’t complain about [...]
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A novel instance of Savile
October 18th, 2012 · No Comments · Life
I have just started reading David Nobbs’ new novel The Fall and Rise of Gordon Coppinger (thanks Jane!) and came across something very interesting on page 12. The hero, Sir Gordon Coppinger, is wondering whether the press had information about an infidelity of his and whether they would write anything about it: He was invulnerable [...]
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Praise for Sky
October 9th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Life
As a card-carrying leftie I don’t want to like anything connected to Rupert Murdoch, but sometimesI can’t help it. Obviously there is the Times crossword, but that was around long before he bought it up, and the Bugle podcast which News International kept funding for ages, but somethign has been happening with Sky over the [...]
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Ghost town
October 8th, 2012 · No Comments · Life
I made a very rare trip into the town centre last week for a small shopping spree (a few DVDs, some bits of clothing and new bedding) and found it a really depressing experience.I know I am partly to blame for not being a good consumer and only venturing to the shops every couple of [...]
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The Torchwood credibility gap
September 16th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Life
I recently watched the first two series of Torchwood on DVD. For the purposes of entertainment I am quite capable of willingly suspending disbelief, just like I was taught to at school, but only up to a point. I’ll go along with there being a rift in space and time at Cardiff, I’ll accept that [...]
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