Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blanche McIntyre, David Troughton, Dharmesh Patel, Hannah Morrish, Luke McGregor, Martin Hutson, Nia Gwynne, Patrick Drury, Sean Hart, Stefan Adegbola, Tom McCall on 27/08/2017| Leave a Comment »
Review of Titus Andronicus at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring David Troughton in the title role. We were left with very mixed feelings. Some was stunning, especially the acting from all the principals. But some bits fell flat. Fascinating modern dress production.
Posted in Uncategorized on 24/08/2017| Leave a Comment »
An illustrated article added on the question of Civil War Statues. (LINKED) It started as a discussion elsewhere, then I was asked the very good question: Do losers in civil wars have statues? I looked at Britain to compare. Well, sometimes they do survive as a resting place for seagulls.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Sheen on 21/08/2017| Leave a Comment »
A belated light-hearted review of Passengers, (LINKED) with Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt and Michael Sheen. It’s way into the DVD racks and out of the cinemas, but I found it fun. We have Jim (Jim Kirk?), Aurora (Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty?) and Arthur (Arthur Dent?) … seen here in the sumptuous bar on the starship Avalon. So, yes, there are a lot of references.
Posted in Uncategorized on 19/08/2017| Leave a Comment »
Second Fiddle is an English Language Teaching Graded reader by Peter Viney. It is intermediate, 1500 headword level, CEF B1. LINK TO KINDLE STORE. for more information. This was written some time ago, edited, then “Storylines” closed to new titles and it sat around. I have revised and regraded it. It’s on the Kindle store at the MINIMUM allowed price of 99 cents. We thought of putting it up free, but then free stuff is regarded as worthless.
Posted in Uncategorized on 17/08/2017| Leave a Comment »
The old 1970 to 1972 TV series A Family At War has been much discussed recently. The linked review will be added to as we continue plowing through the fifty-two episodes over the next few months.
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