I saw some Shakespeare last night.
I do like Shakespeare. And the best way to enjoy a play in my opinion is in the open air on a summer evening. I like the enforced simplicity of set necessary in a touring open-air production. I simple set becomes the foundation for a better set to be […]
Graffiti “artists” claim their work is art!
Perhaps some graffiti is, and many would put Banksy in this exceptional category. In most case though, I think it is no more than vandalism and criminal damage.
Graffiti has a strange power. Where graffiti is allowed to remain it changes its surrounding, an accumulation of litter follows, then […]
What a great turn of phrase!
I was reading that great old British institution, The Radio Times. I had read the review by Alison Graham of the series, Criminal Justice. I like her writing style even if I don’t always like what she likes.
I hadn’t watched the series. Having spend ten years of my life […]
Matt Lucas, star of the controversial comedy show Little Britain, wants to dissolve his homosexual civil partnership after only 18 months. I heard him speak in a radio interview about the happiness he had found with his partner.
I am sure what is a news story to us is a heart-break to him. As his […]
What!? Just for a cup of coffee?
We lived in Hastings on England’s South coast and had been given some vouchers for the ferry to “hop across” the Channel for the day. Our girls were small then and they did not enjoy it. I look back on a disappointing day.
Having once lived on the island […]
In York all that remains of a church dating back to the 1100s is the tower which dates from the 1400s. It stands all alone and splendid in the grounds of the Victorian St Laurence’s church in Lawrence Street.
You can see some information on it on the York Elim Pentecostal Church website. Along with […]
Read full post... We approach the Olympic Games of 2008 and history is repeating itself. In the run up to the games 100 years ago in 1908 the British empire was fallen, thought they were in denial. Now the U.S. empire is fallen and they too are in denial.
As the sun set on the British empire, the […]
