Recently I have been watching The Camomile Lawn on my iPod. I found the complete miniseries on iTunes for four quid, it's amazing. Does anyone else remember this or is it only me? I was around 14 or 15 when it was on TV, but although I remember it (on account of Jennifer Ehle spending most of every episode naked) I don't think I was really ( Read more... )

I want to write today, but so far the urge has been unhelpfully sublimated into reading, looking words up, and now posting here.

First of all, did anyone else see Red Riding? It was amazing, the best thing I've seen on British telly for a very long time - although so very dark that it gave me creepy dreams all last night. Oh, and filmed in the ( Read more... )

Did anyone see the latest episode of QI this weekend?  I swear to god, either John Lloyd has just been reading Graham Robb's The Discovery of France, or else hobnobofjoy  read my post about it and passed on the details, because every damn question was lifted straight from the book!

It was the perfect source, I guess, for a France-themed episode.  They even had ( Read more... )

Everyone on my friends list seems to be doing interesting things, and I feel like I can't play because my life is such a desert of eventlessness at the moment that I have almost nothing to talk about.  Of course you would expect that from the daily office stuff, but it's compounded by the fact that I seem to be spending most of my evenings at the ( Read more... )

• Yay!  Bullet points a-go-go
• After extensive antibiotics - and I HATE taking drugs - I have finally got better just in time to go back to work.
• I finished Against the Day over the holidays.  It's mental.  I wanted to write a review but the prospect of reviewing it seems so crazy I barely know how to start.  But you have to love a novel featuring a ( Read more... )

What not to do if you're presenting a talk show...this guy was so fired:

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I saw Inland Empire last night. It was disappointing.

I have nothing else to report.   Is it just me, or is this a really slow week?