Yet again I was the only person on the afternoon walk, even though today it wasn't raining: however, it is fairly quiet here this week, not a lot of other people around. Still overcast and looking as though it might come on to rain, and the odd sprinkle, when we set out, but moments when there were glimpses of blue sky and the sun (almost or very ( Read more... )

Somebody mentioned in passing in comments to another post that there was a forthcoming TV version of a Ford Maddox Ford novel with Benedict Cumberbatch.

And it turns out not be The Good Soldier, where I could completely see him as Ashburnham, but the tetralogy Parade's End (from the rather sparse IMDB entry I can't tell how much of it they're ( Read more... )

And as relatively uncomplex journeys over a fairly short distance go, that had a fair amount of fume and fret, even with the taxi-driver offering to take me all the way to Guildford (instead of getting the replacement bus service at Haslemere) for rather less than I'd been quoted at Reception. Signalling problems in the Waterloo area meant a lot of ( Read more... )

I was thinking further of that tendency of women to downplay achievements in interviews and indicate that they would have been/would be partial to the Normal Feminine Satisfactions of Life but somehow those have not/not-yet come their way...

And wonder whether in a statistically significant number of cases this is an elaborately performative bit of ( Read more... )