Just a little report on yesterdays' outing with esmerelda_t in the big city. We spent a very pleasant time in the National Portrait Gallery viewing the special exhibitions of photographs of Vivien Leigh in one gallery and,upstairs, one on the life of Benjamin Britten and we had a quiet coffee in the cafe ( Read more... )

Sorry to have been away for a week or so - catching up with LJ and much else now and so just a little news ( Read more... )

Inspired by anteros_lmc post on the theatrical appearances of Captain Fearon and by mylodons starting to cast an Indy version of Richard III thereby,this is a little post uniting some real theatrical history, a few fangirl indulgence photos and a piece of HH cast news ( Read more... )

As it happens we are reaching F on the poetry shelf and so Ursula Fanthorpe, and I imagined choosing one of her faith - based poems for an Easter entry .However I am being strictly fair = although I have a complete set of her poems on a lower shelf, on the shelf we are following at present I have only the first book of her work I had , over 20 ( Read more... )

Thanks to those who joined in the speculation concerning the youthful sailor and indeed the handsome civilian too.

The cute young navyboy is Raymond Dunsmore.He was from a farming family in rural Lincolnshire who joined the Royal navy aged 18 and was ranked ‘boy’ on entry at Portsmouth. He served on the Prince of Wales at the landings in ( Read more... )

Back with the promised post and first up The Lion in Winter. As esmerelda_t has already mentioned it is certainly not as grand as the film was in many ways.However we enjoyed it and our whole day out generally especially the Mint leaf restaurant = a chic Indian restaurant and bar in a cellar on the corner of Haymarket ( Read more... )

This is a kind of place holder for several things which I hope to post fairly rapidly.
First up will be my half of review of last nights successful visit to see Mr Lindsay in The Lion in winter to view his latest foray into playing old gits with anger management issues as I called them last week.This - er - designation - has occasioned some - er - ( Read more... )