It’s a little like Christmas because It’s nearly lunchtime and I’m still not dressed I’m mindlessly eating chocolate before breakfast Getting dressed involves exchanging indoor slouch pants for hiking trousers I’m not going to bed before 2 am It’s like Christmas but The smell of smoked ham, cloved red cabbage and gingerbread isn’t filling…
Business as usual you say? Usual SLAs still stand I presume? Oh right. Meanwhile ….. We tune in for regular State of the Nation addresses We tear up and are proud of our leaders’ Together Apart rhetoric Even if Leo borrows some lines from the Terminator movies Meanwhile ….. There is an invisible serial killer…
I’ve designed a WhatsApp quiz A virtual table quiz And before you say it I know there are fancier tools like Teams, Hangouts and Zoom to see each other’s faces and more importantly to check nobody is cheating But my sister lives in Cuba, her internet is poor so we’re going semi analog. It’s all…
It’s bright when I wake, sometime after 7. The Fitbit app tells me I’ve slept 4 hr 7 min but it’s feels a lot less. I should go back to sleep, it’s going to be a long day but instead decide to get up and out. Hard enough to get a space in Lidl carpark…
So I’m back in one piece from the opening weekend of the Dublin International Film Festival. My sister had lured me up to the capital for Women Make Film, a 14-hour documentary in five sittings written and directed by Mark Cousins. Cousins was there to introduce the first two installments and share his passion for…
While in Madrid last weekend with my son visiting my older son who now lives there, I made the mistake of visiting the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía with them. T, the twentyone-year-old was hungover, had had very little sleep and appeared to be powered entirely by the fumes from his armpits. T‘s…
Korean director Bong Joon Ho made history at the 92nd Academy Awards when his movie “Parasite” won the Best Picture Oscar, the first foreign-language film ever to win. While the film’s title suggests it might belong to the horror or end of days genre, Parasite is a universal story of rich vs poor. The…
Based on Sarfraz Manzoor’s book “Greetings from Bury Park – Race. Religion. Rock ‘N’ Roll.”, Blinded by Light is a coming of age movie with a racial twist. Javed, a first-generation Pakistani immigrant, takes teenage angst to a whole new level. It’s Britain in the 1980s as Javed juggles being a teenager within a traditional…
Joker Movie Review Directed and produced by Todd Phillips, Joker is based loosely on DC Comics characters with Joaquin Phoenix in the title role. This is not a movie for all the family unlike the bottomless pit of blockbusters coming from the Marvel franchise. While the setting is crime-ridden Gotham City and the Wayne family…
The stretch in the evening is leaving us for another year. It’s getting near time to start lighting the fire. Much as we may hate and disagree with Top 10s, Top 20s or Top 100 things you have to do/read/visit/watch, it’s no harm having a list of books to hand to get you through the…
