Thursday, March 15, 2007

"Our virtues lie in th'interpretation of the time"

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So, shouty acting is alive and well and being presented on stage in Stratford. Thirty years after being deafened by Alan Howard as Coriolan...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

The Play's The Thing!

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The epic marathonic odyssey of cleaning preparatory to the viewing of the house is complete. I’m sure that there are some glaring examples o...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

. . . and these are my books!

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“It’s all done by mirrors!” is the time honoured cry of knowing spectators when a stage magician has created an illusion so stupendous that ...
Monday, March 12, 2007

It all depends what you mean by harmful!

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The one interesting part about buying shoes when I was a child was The Machine. Norvic Kiltie (?) was a firm I seem to remember which made k...
Sunday, March 11, 2007

Stepping Out In Style

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Every day and in every way, Life sets out to get me. It is hard not to be cynical when the little vicissitudes of everyday existence prove s...
Saturday, March 10, 2007

What weather?

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This is a country which celebrates its failures almost as much, if not more than, its successes: think of the Battle of Hastings; Corunna an...
Friday, March 09, 2007

That is the question?

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If you had just a single question to put to a person in order to discover the person’s essential and real character, what would it be? I kno...
Thursday, March 08, 2007

Hating is Good Clean Fun!

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Twenty two billion. That’s 22, 000, 000, 000, 000. Change those numbers into dollars and that’s how much HSBC made last year. What do they s...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Hope restored!

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Winter is a time when, with the death of Nature, faith looks, at best, a little sickly. It is difficult to be positive when all around you ...
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Where have all the icons gone?

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You know you are getting older when even the photographers of pop stars, long dead, are dead themselves. Noel Brodsky the photographer, who ...
Monday, March 05, 2007

The Power Of The Press

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"The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic – just one of those unfortunate things." What a wonderful quotation! I...
Sunday, March 04, 2007

Lazy Sunday

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Ah! The usual soundtrack to a lazy Sunday in Cardiff: lashing rain. I haven’t been out of the house all day, unless you count stepping out t...
Saturday, March 03, 2007

The Queue is a State of Mind

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Paranoia takes many forms, but I think that one can safely assume that the condition is not distant when one begins to formulate a Tao of Qu...
Friday, March 02, 2007

To read, or not to read?

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World Book Day has come and gone with barely a rustle of turned pages, but it has produced something which my rag bag mind loves: lists. The...
Thursday, March 01, 2007

Just listen!

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What a sad reflection on national identity it is that it was only after I had completed my self indulgent blog that I realised that I had do...