THE ARTIST ( Cert. PG) ***** Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, Uggi Director: Michel Hazanavinius Running Time: 100 minutes It is Hollywood and it’s 1927. It is the era of silent movies and George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is its…
I am still waiting for a new dishwasher after my last one decided to pack it in after a decade of mind-numbing washing up duties. Who can blame it? Washing up, regardless of what I said yesterday, can be exceedingly…
I hate washing up! Well, I thought I did. The dishwasher died at the weekend and I have spent longer here at the kitchen sink that I thought I would ever enjoy. So it was back to the marigold gloves…
So here we go again – the British Prime Minister makes an impassioned speech from what can look from certain angles as the moral high ground. He will defend the little islands known as the Falklands or the Malvinos and…
‘I wouldn’t like to be in the role of the captain of the Titanic, having to sail in an ocean of icebergs’ said Captain Francesco Schettino who has been arrested after his huge cruise liner, the Costa Concordia came to…
These old shoes have made a couple of previous appearances on these pages but today they have a starring role. I just happened to be wearing my old Chicago Dodgers sneakers in the photograph above when I decided to put…
Today my friends Foxes! release their first album – I am much too involved for you to take my word for it but the album is wonderful….if you don’t believe me this is what some unbiased opinions have said. Read…
At last, just as we reach mid-January, a taste of winter in my Lewes garden here in Southern England. My roses, still merrily blooming, had the beautiful indignity of a glittering coating of frost this morning – the first frost…
We all have days like this – well I do – when nothing really wakes you up. The coffee was great, thanks, but it didn’t do the trick, neither did that sleep last night. The sun is shining here and…
Tomasz Gudzowaty’s photographs of Shaolin monks bring together two of my passions – the awe-inspiring skills of kungfu and the inspirational nature of art photography. These pictures are from his book Shaolin Temple and they are without question magnificent visual…