Saturday, October 11, 2025

graham nash at bristol beacon…

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Nostalgia rules! I went along to the Bristol Beacon last night to see/hear Graham Nash (plus Peter Asher – of ‘Peter+Gordon’ fame if you’re ...
Friday, October 10, 2025

o’hooley+tidow at st george’s…

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After 15 years of performing together, eight studio albums, four BBC Folk Award nominations and hundreds of venues and festivals across the ...
Saturday, October 04, 2025

your starter for ten…

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Moira and I went along to the Bristol Old Vic last night for the first time in ages (with Moira’s hearing deficiency – and mine, to a lesser...
Friday, September 26, 2025

christchurch meadow, oxford…

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I ‘discovered’ Christchurch Meadow very soon after I moved to Oxford in September 1967 (which, somewhat frighteningly, is nearly 60 years ag...
Monday, September 22, 2025

steve...

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I went along to the Watershed this afternoon to see Tim Mielants’s film ‘Steve’, starring the wonderful Cillian Murphy as the frazzled head ...

august-september 2025 books…

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Give Unto Others (Donna Leon): I’ve read several Donna Leon’s ‘Commissario Brunetti Mysteries’ over the years – but this is my first for mor...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

and so another cricket season is about to end…

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I went along to watch Gloucestershire play Northants today… I made it despite disruptions due to a bus strike (hey ho!). Day 2 of 4 – althou...
Friday, August 29, 2025

august 2025 books...

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Yesterday Morning (Diana Athill): I’ve read a lot of Athill’s books over the years. She died in 2019, aged 101. Until she was 14, she was ...