Month: October 2016

Doors

They say as one door closes, another opens … well, maybe I’ve accidentally crocheted my own door. I started crocheting a couple of years ago and I’m not even sure if I remember why. My grandmother used to crochet endless circular blankets which I used to snuggle under as a child, and I’m sure that …

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The Libertine

Took Child Two to see The Libertine at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket last night. This was partly to bolster her upcoming uni English Lit interviews, since the play’s anti-hero, the Earl of Rochester, was the inspiration for lots of restoration baddies  – and partly because it stars the rather lovely Dominic Cooper. You probably remember …

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Pollocks

We went to the Royal Academy’s blockbusting Abstract Expressionism exhibition at the weekend and, as usual, I really struggled to get to grips with this (for me) difficult art movement. A part of me looks at the huge canvases, daubed apparently randomly, and I can’t help but think that if I tied paintbrushes to my …

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The golden ticket

Well, another friend’s daughter has gone off to university today. When I popped round yesterday, there was a huge pile of all her worldly goods – all the ones wanted on this part of her voyage, anyway – by the front door. Among them was a pin board with a picture of one of her …

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