Every good boy deserves favour
To the National Theatre to see Every Good Boy Deserves Favour by Tom Stoppard & André Previn on the recommendation of Chris who happily went to see it again with…
Multi-tasking? No thanks.
Multi-schmulti "I'm just multi-tasking" is a phrase that annoys me like no other. I don't think I've ever heard a man use the word about himself, but then 'multi-tasking', according…
Why music?
Waiting in the check-out queue at Sainsburys the other day, I was mesmerized by the sight of a lardy teenage girl standing – or rather pulsating and jerking compulsively like…
A Little Night Music
To the Menier Chocolate Factory for dinner & Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music with Chris & parents and John from Atlanta. I can’t remember ever walking out of a…
Der gestohlene Abend
…is the title of my favourite author Wolfram Fleischhauer’s brand new novel (see previous posts here and here). Biked it down to Tate Britain on this bracing but gorgeously sunny…
Gratuitous cat picture
Every blog should have gratuitous cat pictures now and again, even if only to stick two virtual fingers up to those who complain that the internet is full of ‘me…