So this morning I capitulated and, against my own better judgement, bought Orange membership for the Barbican in order to procure a ticket to see Benedict Cumberbatch play Hamlet in autumn 2015.


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Apart from proving my British credentials regarding traffic concerns, since last week reorganisation of local routes including school buses was necessary merely for the testing of the Olympic torch relay through our area (which will happen again for real, precisely at peak morning commute time, one mid-week school-day in July, once more causing ( Read more... )

Doubtless this is my penance for having skived off to the cinema yesterday afternoon ( Read more... )

Warning for gratuitous minor celebrity and/or public figure name-dropping.So... Today I've been catching up with other people's reviews and it seems I chose the wrong date to see JLM as Frankenstein's Creature, because apparently his good friend Jude (as in Law) was at the National Theatre recently to watch the performance ( Read more... )

Why did I not watch this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortysomething_(TV_series) in 2003 when it was broadcast and I was myself Fortysomething? Hugh Laurie as out-of-control family man with very badly behaved sons... one of whom was guess who?

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How did I miss this ( Read more... )

Why oh why is this classic film, with an Academy Award-winning performance by Dame Maggie Smith, not available in the UK on DVD ( Read more... )

I picked up a leaflet when passing the new Chinese Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture outlet recently opened in town. I was genuinely considering a consultation for the rampant hot flares which are assaulting me currently several times daily. Although they have helped in the past, I now seem to have become immune to the herbal Sage tablets from the ( Read more... )

Woe! I feared as much. Ever since I read that Yates wanted to bring out the 'humour' in his next film, I have had a horrible suspicion that much of HBP would be turned into ridiculous romcom at the expense of the much more important and Darker story line ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm trying to catch up on everyone's memes and posts! I've been rather 'absent' for a few days. Here's why ...( Tale of woe )

... and not a drop to drink. ( major rant )