My vocal cords kept me awake last night – gasp.
Useful things vocal cords. As someone who likes to talk, I would like to describe it as communicate rather than chat. I used to sing a lot too but not so much now. The trouble is that one of my…
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This is a test blog from my iPhone – a huge leap in Wolfie’s technology.
Forgive this moment of nerdiness – I’m testing to see if I can post a blog from my phone. This is the snowy view from my window as it looks now. If this works then the possibilites are endless –…
My Lewes snowdrops are growing through the snow drop
It is how they are meant to look, snowdrops in the snow but it doesn’t happen like that here in southern England that much but this year they look just perfect.
Carnage – the latest Polanski movie but this time the horror is in the comedy.
Carnage (Cert 15) *** Director: Roman Polanski Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly Running Time: 80 minutes Kids! Who’d have them! These parents, the Longstreets (Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly) and the Cowans (Kate Winslet…
Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 comes up fresh if you don’t listen to it for 20 years.
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) When I was a teenager I fought hard to hate the music of Tchaikovsky who was then, maybe he still is, the world’s most popular classical music composer. I suspect I was not entirely free from adolescent…
The Descendants
THE DESCENDANTS (CERT 15) *** Director: Alexander Payne Starring: George Clooney, Shallene Woodley, Amara Miller Running Time: 115 minutes Hawaiian land baron Matt King (George Clooney) is going through a bad time: his wife is on a life support machine…
Sunday Morning Snow In Lewes UK
A cute member of the British royal family – at last.
I’ve never been much of a royal-watcher and I took no interest in that wedding when two nice but dim people embarked on their life of privilege but suddenly all that has changed. I wonder why. Maybe it’s because, at last, there is a…
J Edgar – Leonardo DiCaprio triumphs in spite of the latex.
J EDGAR (CERT 15) *** Director: Clint Eastwood Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts R.T. 137 minutes The infamous and all-powerful FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover was feared for over 50 years because he had files on everyone from…
Strip all the knights from their shining armour – not just Fred.
I know that I have always put Fred Goodwin’s title in brackets on these pages and I’m certainly not sorry to see him lose that silly addition to his name. I have no admiration for the man and only contempt…