Never one to jump on a bandwagon, here's this completely original idea.

This graph quite clearly shows why books were brilliant from about 1920 to 1950, and why they are now all comparatively rubbish.


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I know; everyone else has finished this ages ago. But here's mine.

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 For the benefit of those who are interested in the Life And Work Of Mr John Simm, Actor, I present the following screen captures from "Rumpole of the Bailey, Series 7" in which he essays the part of a juvenile delinquent. They date from 1992, and are vintage example of flippyfloppyhair.

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I think that in what is one of the most interesting and complex elections for a generation,  the BBC have severely let themselves (and therefore us) down with their coverage. Frivolous, inaccurate, overblown, inconsistent and uncoordinated (website and TV calling some seats in different directions!) Andrew Neil wasted on a D-list celebrity barge. ( Read more... )

15 hours of happy telling from 7am until the polls closed at 10pm. Much higher turnout in our ward than usual, and a jolly time with activists of all political persuasions (many representatives of two flavours of socialists, an itinerant Green and the very occasional LibDem ( Read more... )

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I saw this play by Jeremy Paul with JB and EH on its original run, and, unlike many critics, I enjoyed it quite a lot. (Despite the fact that, as my mother pointed out, there were no women in it. To be fair, there were only 2 men in it, and they were Holmes and Watson ( Read more... )

I made a vegetable soup yesterday for A to have for dinner (I was going out). I just  enjoyed the leftovers for my brunch today, despite the escapee bit of thyme from the bouquet garni which left irritating bits of stick for you to pick out as you ate it. Gah. That'll teach me (not) to rustically zizz it up a bit, rather than blitz it to a smooth ( Read more... )

Bugger. It is going to be on Sunday 15th November, and I'm in LA! How dare they. Did they not check my calendar? 

 Even in the UK, hotel telly is rubbish.

I was reduced to watching quite the worst Sherlock Holmes TV Movie I have ever seen.

It starred Edward Woodward. I like Edward Woodward. But as Holmes? *shudder*.
Anthony Andrews was Moriarty. Moriarty, it turns out, is an only-slightly-more-embittered Sebastian Flyte, cast back a generation.

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