JUST ANOTHER WEEK in the life of a parent. Wake up calls at 6am, mountains of washing, making food, the Peppa Pig soundtrack in your head all day long, making food, cleaning, playing, singing, making ...
BY LATE 1990 4th Tonks had become an Op Granby (Gulf War I) support regiment, with our tanks stripped for spares to support the troops in Kuwait and increasing numbers of personnel being told off ...
WELL, I FOR ONE am delighted with the new lockdown measures that have been put in place. I mean, so straightforward, all makes total sense, gives us all a sense of purpose when we can ...
IN A TWEET deserving more attention than it has received so far, anti-nationalist account @themajorityscot alerted me to a pro-EU Scottish group I hadn’t noticed before, eu+me:
THIS is my life…
“Morning Lily!” I say optimistically.
“NOOOOO!” Roars Lily.
“Did you have a good sleep?” I ask.
“NOOOOO!” Roars Lily.
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HI PEEPS! Another week, another blog. Even though it’s been a pretty rough year, the weeks seem to be flying in at the moment. I’m not sure if it’s because we are settling down to ...
FRIENDS, the other critics who have seen and written about Saint Maud have put me in a bit of an awkward situation again. Like they did when talking about Booksmart, many of my colleagues appear to have ...
ALFRED SCHNITTKE saw the future. His First Symphony, five years in the making and premiered in Gorky in 1974, having being turned down by numerous Soviet orchestras too afraid the piece would not meet the ...
HELLO OCTOBER! At the risk of causing a public outcry and outrage, I’m going to talk about the ‘C’ word in my blog this week. Sorry. Yes..
Christmas!!
That’s ...
FRIENDS, I try to keep my opinions, and the way I arrive at them, as original as possible in these weekly deep dives into the movies. I like to think that such regular readers as ...
HAVING HEAVED a collective sigh of relief in waving goodbye to Cyprus, it didn’t take long to get back into the groove of being an armoured regiment on tanks again. The rear party we had ...
WE ARE in the middle of a pandemic. Our county has gone into further restrictions since midnight. The Playschool is closed. We have to queue and wear masks everywhere. We are dosed with the cold.
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