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still more book stuff: Mapp+Lucia (E F Benson): I’d not read any of EF Benson’s Mapp+Lucia series of novels before now – about the p...

For the second time in three days (it must be the holiday season?), I went along to the Watershed cinema. This time I saw Michel Gondry’s...

  I went to the Watershed again this afternoon to see a film about a talented Italian fighter pilot who’s been turned into a pig by a m...

This is what the 1418-Now website says: “On Platform One of Paddington Station in London, there is a statue of an unknown soldier; he’s...

Did you know that Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana, became a British citizen and lived in Clifton in Bristol from the early 1990s until 200...

Another trip to the Watershed cinema this afternoon – this time to see David Gordon Green’s bleak and violent film, “Joe”. Based on th...

I last played golf on 1 November 2012 (that’s 19 months ago). It proved to be a painful experience… some hip pain, but much worse was th...

I’m not entirely sure, but I think the street party held in our street today was the first one for nearly 70 years - since the party hel...

yet more stuff: J B Priestley (Dulcie Gray): This is a short biography of essayist, playwright, novelist, broadcaster and journali...

Moira+I went along to the very warm(!) Brewery Theatre tonight to see Saikat Ahamed’s acclaimed one-man show (returning to the Brewery T...

Yes, I probably have a very simplistic view of the world of politics and global business, but news that the UK was exporting arms to R...

The Church of England Synod’s vote in November 2012 against women bishops marked the end of my time worshipping in the Anglican Church. ...

More book stuff: The Shock of the Fall (Nathan Filer): This is our Book Group’s next book (but I’ve read it so far in advance of o...

I went along to the Watershed this afternoon to see “Boyhood”, the much-acclaimed Richard Linklater film – filmed with the same group ...

I’d previously read (and thoroughly enjoyed) Jonas Jonasson’s bizarre and entertaining book about the unlikely adventures of a man wh...

I went along to the Watershed yesterday afternoon to see my first film since my hip operation… only now can I face the prospect of sit...

As some of you will be aware, I started my “One Day Like This” blog in September 2012 – posting a daily photograph or drawing on alte...

More book stuff: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez): I’m rather ashamed to admit that I’d not read any Marquez bo...

It’s just 9 days after my hip replacement and I’ve just returned from a half hour walk… This isn’t any kind of boast (and I was on cr...

I found the weekend’s EU election results - which saw UKIP emerge as the UK’s most popular(?) political party with some 28% of voters ...