With headlines in the papers saying that 52 per cent of women suffer sexual harassment at work, Child One turned to me and said, ‘did that ever happen to you, Mum?’ I remember her once asking me if it had been fun travelling by stage coach and I think this enquiry was in the same …
There’s been a huge hoo-ha about the new Ghostbusters film – changing the lead characters to female. I must admit I’d be a bit miffed if they suddenly changed Little Women to Little Men, but Ghostbusters? Is it such a classic that you can’t mess with it? I did love the film at the time …
We’ve just spent a lovely week in Scotland, at a Landmark Trust place near Port William. I say ‘near’, but in fact the joy of it was that it wasn’t near anything …. no wifi, no telly, phone only if you were prepared to stand very close to cows who weren’t much into personal (cowsonal?) …
Off we went the other day to see the new David Hockney exhibition at the Royal Academy. I admit I pressed buttons a bit at random when I got the email about the show – I’ve been caught out before and not been able to get tickets when I’ve been slow off the mark. If …
Went to see a rather likeable film at the weekend – The Nice Guys with Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling. Ryan Gosling has the ability to be adorable in everything, no matter how awful the character he plays – rather like a fluffy gosling, in fact, you can forgive him anything. You’ve probably seen the …
We missed the opening of Tate Modern’s new extension because we were away on our super-swanky holiday …. of which more soon …. so I was really pleased to go to the Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition last week and take in the new building at the same time. It turns out that Tate Modern is Child …
Well, thank goodness someone has stepped up to the mark and agreed to take on this battered old country as it tries to recover from the Brexit bodyblow. In the absence of any sort of a response from Labour, we should be thankful for Theresa May’s evident sense of duty and responsibility. The mess isn’t …
I had heard about the huge rise in racist incidents since the referendum result, but had airily assumed that it was all happening outside London, in those god-forsaken chunks of the country where people had unaccountably decided that recession, unemployment and knackered pension schemes were what they’d always wanted. But no, it’s happening even here, …
My dears, it’s been an age. Hope you’ve been well and aren’t too downcast by this strange Brexiteering world we’ve been plunged into. I’m sorry I haven’t been here in your hour of need, but I was on important business, having the holiday of a lifetime. I’m not allowed to say any more about that …
Bringing this up is a bit like talking about a bad smell. I don’t really want to … but I feel I must. Yes, it’s that whole Europe business. We’ve now passed from the coma-inducing early stages of campaigning, when absolutely no one wanted to talk about the whole issue except the dullest politicians on …